White Girls
About this book
White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women 16 years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of "white girls,” as Als dubs them, an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Michael Jackson and Flannery O’Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and nonfiction, high culture and low, the theoretical and the deeply personal, Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects, and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
Subjects
- african american authors
- african american gay men
- african american gay men / identity
- african american gays
- african american gays / biography
- african americans
- american authors
- american essays
- american literature
- authors, american
- biographies
- biography
- biography & autobiography / cultural, ethnic & regional / african american & black
- collection:randy_shilts_award=winner
- conscience de race
- différences entre sexes (psychologie)
- écrivains américains
- essays (single author)
- gay men, biography
- gays, identity
- gender identity
- geschlechterrolle
- geschlechtsidentität
- geschlechtsunterschied
- history and criticism
- homosexuels masculins noirs américains
- homosexuels noirs américains
- identité sexuelle
- identity
- lambda literary awards
- lambda literary award winner
- lgbtq art & artists
- lgbtq essays
- männerbild
- manners and customs
- masculinité
- masculinity
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:culture=2014-11-09
- race awareness
- rassenfrage
- rôle selon le sexe
- sex differences (psychology)
- sex role