Talk:The White Negro

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With all due respect to my man Morgan, I don't think this phenomenon is verifiable or notable enough to create an article. Moreover, this movement basically has nothing to do with the wigga movement in the '90s to now. The only similarity is both involve white (although wiggas can be interpret as Wannabe "Black" which could include any race) attempting to be African American.-Certified.Gangsta 23:05, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

message: An older edit of the article linked to the text of the essay online at learntoquestion.com. This link was subsequently removed on 3 October 2010 with the edit note, "possible copy-vio". I have included a new link to the essay text at Dissent magazine itself, where the essay was first published in 1957, and which Dissent re-published online, in full, on the occasion of the death of the author. There is no question of copyright violation at that site. —O'Dea 08:00, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Too bad it's full of typos. You'd think they'd be more careful. Grlucas (talk) 10:49, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to text of ''The White Negro'' at original publisher, ''Dissent'' magazine 

message: This article needs help, so I'm going to attempt a big revision. Anyone want to help? Grlucas (talk) 10:49, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Working on Bibliography. -Grlucas (talk) 17:53, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

text: Finally ready to replace the synopsis. (Gee, it only took a year.) Grlucas (talk) 16:18, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. It was a pretty significant edit, and I saved original text, if anyone is interested. Grlucas (talk) 17:26, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beginning Revision, August 2017 

message: For HUMN 4472, fall 2018. Use templates linked from Template:Cite book, mostly book, journal, magazine, and web (sparingly). Format, as follows, and be sure to keep track of your citations for the text as you summarize; here you can put them parenthetically. As with all bibliographies, please put your entries in alphabetical order by last name. —Grlucas (talk) 13:09, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking for articles? Check out Jason Mosser's super bibliography. —Grlucas (talk) 17:13, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annotated Bibliography 

message: The so-called white Negroes adopted black clothing styles, black jive language, and black music. They mainly associated with black people, distancing themselves from white society. One of the early figures in the white negro phenomenon was jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, an American Jew born in 1899 who had declared himself a "voluntary Negro" by the 1920s.The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz p. 146 By Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler. Retrieved:2010-10-25. This movement influenced the hipsters of the 1940s and the beats of the 1950s.
I removed the above from the Analysis section in the article. Perhaps with a bit more sourcing (is an encyclopedia really the best source here?) and research it would be germane to Background? Grlucas (talk) 20:13, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suitable for background? 

message: Probably the most prominent academic exponent of the New Left in the US was Herbert Marcuse. The essay is also very prescient because it anticipates the pejorative use of the word wigger in contemporary society to refer to white people who emulate the manner of speech, the fashion styles, or other aspects of the expressive culture of African Americans.
I do not see any critical support for the above, so I removed it. I have no problem adding it back if support is found. —Grlucas (talk) 12:26, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed