...his day, where he must be with it or doomed not to 6 swing. According to Mailer the archetype hipster "is the Negro for he has been living on the margin...totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries." But not all Negroes qualify as Mailer's archetypes, of course, merely those who have learned to flourish...

...almost any kind of unconventional action often takes disproportionate courage. So it is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...subtle but so penetrating influence on an avant-garde generation — that post-war generation of adventurers who (some consciously, some by osmosis) had...

...his 1957 essay "The White Negro," but his observations apply equally to hippies: It is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy 6 * THE HIPPIES AND AMERICAN VALUES for two centuries. But the presence of Hip as a working philosophy...

...American culture, to jazz in particular, and to the sexual freedom associated with it. It is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...sub-worlds of American life is probably due to jazz. . . . In this wedding of the white and the black it was the Negro who brought the cultural dowry. Any...

...almost any kind of unconventional action often takes disproportionate courage. So it is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries. (585; emphasis mine) As Baldwin intuited, Mailer identifies black culture with sex and primitivism:...

...simply that "the source of Hip is the Negro." And he explains why: because poor blacks in America have "been living on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries," they have developed "a morality of the bottom,"18 a code of toughness and indulgence that the Hipster...

...black countercultures. As he claims, it is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he had been living on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries. . . . And in the wedding of the white and the black it was the Negro who brought the cultural dowry....

...again forges the Jewish-black connection, as Mailer moves quickly to his subject: "the Negro [who] has been living on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries."101 For Mailer, as for Emerson before him, the Negro tests, and exposes, the limits of American...

...Reemergence of Desire and the Postclassical Narrative, or "Hoo-Doo . ." and "How-To . So it is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been living in the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries. Norman Mailer, "The White Negro,"...

...disaffection, Norman Mailer writes that the "presence of the Hip as a working philosophy in the sub-world of American life is probably due to jazz and its knifelike...culture, its subtle but so penetrating influence on the avant-garde generation. . . ." 20 Indeed, such was the fervor among the many contributors to Robert...