Via The Nation, “Lauren Michele Jackson Wants to Change How We Talk About Appropriation”: “I honestly can’t remember when I first encountered White Negro|Mailer’s essay], but it was in the back of my head as I was compiling this project and thinking of a name for it. In some ways, the connections between these two works are fairly loose: I’m borrowing a term and elaborating upon it for my own purposes. But because I am borrowing, too, I want to actually acknowledge the essay and do a close reading of it in a way that feels meaningful.”