Complex sentence: Edward J. Robinson links the poem's comments about racial intermarriage to a "Southern rape complex", according to which racial purity was threatened by the possibility of segregation dispersing in society, and by African American male interest in Caucasian women.
Split into simpler sentences: Edward J. Robinson links the poem's comments about racial intermarriage to a "Southern rape complex". He suggests that racial purity was threatened by the possibility of segregation dispersing in society, and by African American male interest in Caucasian women.