...will, one is impotent in the world of action." According to "The White Negro," the source of all cool "is the Negro, for he has been living on the margin...totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries." To Mailer, cool was sexual, or more accurately, postcoital, the result of a "menage a trois" involving...

...blackness as part of the bargain. THE WHITE NEGRO AS A PSEUDO-SPANGLISH PERSONA So it is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries. — NORMAN MAILER, "THE WHITE NEGRO" Ever since I first read On the Road and its passages luxuriating...

...this kind of white longing for identification with the black male body and spirit: It is no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries. . . . And in this wedding of the white and the black it was the Negro who brought the cultural dowry....

..."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...totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries." Mailer's homage to black manhood had paternalistic and racist undertones. He believed that black hipsters...

...essay about beats that applied equally well to hippies, novelist Norman Mailer wrote: "It's no accident that the source of Hip is the Negro for he has been...totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries." Although some hippies were simply escapists, many were active opponents of the majority culture. Some...