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Publication date. 1957. Media type. Print. 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". [1]
20 de jun. de 2007 · Since the Negro knows more about the ugliness and danger of life than the White, it is probable that if the Negro can win his equality, he will possess a potential superiority, a superiority so feared that the fear itself has become the underground drama of domestic politics.
Although “The White Negro” may fail on the level of formal sociology, it endures as a sort of creative literary-sociological attempt to understand America’s Hip subcultural currents and their association with the national black/white sociocultural divide of the Eisenhower era.
And then Mailer published “The White Negro” in 1957. In these pages, Mailer attempted to define a subculture of American existentialists, whom he termed “hipsters.”. He equated the psychopathic hipster with the everyday Negro, for both, he insisted, existed in a world of danger and violence and war.
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.
It is the purpose of this essay to explore the effect of what might be termed historical and historicist pressures on the Romantic myth as manifested in Mailer's work, paying particular attention to his famous, or infamous, essay of 1957, "The White Negro."
3 Norman Mailer, "The White Negro," IV Dissent, (Spring, 1957). While Mailer has popularized. the term white Negro, it does not owe its origin to him. The term has been used for several centuries in the West Indies to describe white men who have become submerged among their Negro servants and concubines. A.
