“The White Negro”: Norman Mailer's Essay 65 Years Later
“‘The White Negro’: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light of current events and concludes “For all its many inexcusable flaws, ‘The White Negro’ was an important essay for its time and a yardstick for measuring how we discuss race today.”
Opinion | “The White Negro”: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later
What’s really behind the current controversy over this 1957 piece of writing and is the infamous article still worth reading?
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