In his infamous essay “The White Negro” (1957), novelist and essayist Norman Mailer tried to explain the appearance of the “the hipster” on to the cultural scene of the 1950s. This was a subset of ...

Norman Mailer was proud of his essay “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster.” Published in Dissent in 1957, it was reprinted in Advertisements for Myself (1959), Mailer’s anthology ...