Mailer to [Lorraine] Hansberry
Mailer's reply to Lorraine Hansberry's 1 June 1961 Village Voice essay attacking his two-part review of Genet's The Blacks (61.6) and his views on race in America. One of the earliest of his recorded skirmishes over the racial politics of 'The White Negro.'
“Mailer to [Lorraine] Hansberry.” Village Voice, 8 June 1961, 11–12. Essay-as-reply.
Mailer’s answer to Lorraine Hansberry‘s 1 June 1961 essay in The Voice attacking his review of Genet’s The Blacks (61.6) and his views on race in America. The exchange anticipates the long argument over the racial politics of “The White Negro” (57.1).