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The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster is a 9,000-word essay by Norman Mailer that connects the "psychic havoc" wrought by the Holocaust and atomic bomb to the aftermath of slavery in America in the figuration of the Hipster, or the "white negro".
The cameos of security for the average white: mother and the home, lob and the family, are not even a mockery to millions of Negroes; they are impossible. The Negro has the simplest of alternatives: live a life of constant humility or ever-threatening danger.
En artículos-reportaje como "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" (1956) y "Advertisements for Myself" (1959), Mailer examinó la violencia, la histeria, el delito y la confusión en la sociedad estadounidense.
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro is a 2008 documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his anti-slavery lecture tour in Ireland in 1845 while avoiding capture as a fugitive in the United States.
An understanding of either white beats or the black bourgeoisie requires consideration of both the white middle class and the Negro working class. As has often been noted, the black bourgeoisie take a very positive. stand toward middle-class values and are very critical of average Ne- groes.
In “The White Negro,” Mailer argues that the postwar bleakness of the 1950s saw the appearance of “a phenomenon,” “the American existentialist,” the “hipster.” The hipster had the “life-giving...
El ‘White Negro’ del título hace referencia a un ‘hipster’ de la década de 1950 que vive para la gratificación inmediata.
