abstract:"The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" is a 9,000 word essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a number of young white people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s who liked jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own.Norman Mailer's Hipster Theory: Whatever Became of the White Negro?
The recipients varied from individual employees of his companies to the Philadelphia Orchestra, from the United Negro College Fund to theWhite House (which got a bowling alley), from Harvard to various Republican candidates.