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Posts Tagged ‘class’

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.


Common Ground: The Political Economy of The Wire

by Judd Franklin • 29 May 09
Journal: Issues | The Wire Files [4]

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America. There’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.
- Barack Obama[1]…