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Daniel McNeil is a Lecturer in Black and Minority studies at the University of Hull, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, and HMP Full Sutton. His forthcoming book, Sex and Race in a Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs, is part of Routledge’s African and Black diaspora series.
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White Negroes and The Wire

by Daniel McNeil • 29 May 09
Journal: Issues | The Wire Files [4]

Just over fifty years ago, Norman Mailer prowled the psychic wilds of Greenwich Village in search of an apocalyptic orgasm. The result of Mailer’s cruising was The White Negro, an influential essay which encouraged more hipsters to rail against soul-destroying institutions with a little help from a bad ass Black culture.