The_White_Negro

The White Negro For many who may still not know, rap music continues to outsell other genres of American music. Since Americans of African descent comprise of about 12% percent of the nation's population, this means that the vast majority of documented rap music buyers are whites teenagers. Although white rapper Eminen has struck platinum with his sophomore album "The Marshall Mathers LP", and artists like Kid Rock and the group Limp Bizkit pepper their rock music with rap, the genre itself is still heavily influenced by the "Black" and Latino youth . For idealists, white kids buying rap music represents a level of racial understanding and acceptance unknown to their parents. However for realists, this phenomenon is nothing more than the re-emergence of the White Negro. True cross-racial engagement necessitates meaningful interaction and buying a CD or dressing "hip-hop" is not a substitute. Norman Mailer coined the term "White Negro" in his 1957 essay of the same name when he stated, "So there was a new breed of adventurers...who drifted out at night looking for action with a black man's code to fit their facts. The hipster has absorbed the existentialist synapses of the Negro, and for all practical purposes could be considered white, black, negro, hip-hop, wimsatt, rap, music, about, culture, racial, african-americans, whites, people, little, while, film, african-american, blacks, true, samuel, rather, person, own, negroes, youth, school, same, real, new, middle, man, however, explore, class, americans