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Greg Tate’s editorial collection examines the growing trend of white Americans adopting black styles of music, fashion, language, and lifestyle, from the streets of Brooklyn to the far west. Drawing on essays by Vernon Reid, Carl Hancock Rux, Hilton Als, and others, the book interrogates whether this cultural exchange reflects genuine admiration, a desire to escape cultural anxieties, or a more complex pattern of appropriation and paternalism. Themes include racial identity, cultural conflict, the legacy of Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro,” and the broader sociological implications of black influence on mainstream white culture.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Greg Tate
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