The (Jewish) White Negro: Norman Mailer's racial bodies.(Critical Essay)

From: MELUS | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Levine, Andrea | Copyright information

Norman Mailer's 1957 essay "The White Negro" has long been regarded as a paradigmatic example of the white male investment in African American masculinity. Few contemporary discussions of the meanings that white men make of 'blackness' fail to invoke Mailer's essay; (1) indeed, his work often serves to name a whole US tradition of interracial desire and fantasy, from nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy and the white romance with Harlem Renaissance 'primitivism,' to Elvis Presle...

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