Romantic racism
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Romantic racism is a form of
middle-class suburban families as the cultural ideal, and that it was indifferent to art and literature, upheld racial segregation, and despised or ignored black achievements, such as jazz.[1]
Those, like the novelist Norman Mailer, who felt limited by or alienated from mainstream culture, sought out influences from other cultures as a form of rebellion. This romanticization is based in stereotypes created by the dominant group.
Mailer's essay "
African-Americans (with whom the expression "hip", meaning "in the know", originated). Mailer, who considered himself an opponent of Victorian sexual repression and regimentation, idealized what he saw as the sexual and other freedoms of minority and other countercultural groups, overlooking the fact that in these groups sexual exploitation of women sometimes occurred.[citation needed
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Critics consider Mailer's depictions of what he imagines African-American life to be like as an instance of what they call "romantic racism", contending that he implies that life in urban
hypersexual.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b Breines, Wini (1992). Young, White, and Miserable: Growing up Female in the Fifties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press[page needed]
- JSTOR 40004417.
- ^ a b Wallace, Michele ([1979]1990) Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. London: Verso[page needed]