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Apr 10, 2018 · Hilton Als, a black American writer, explores race, gender and sexuality through the lens of "white girls" in his book of essays. He talks to VICE about his provocative title, his subjects' identities and his own freedom of expression.
Hilton Als, in the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race and gender in his new essay collection, “White Girls.”
Nov 5, 2013 · Als explores the complex and diverse meanings of "white girls" in literature, art, and history, drawing on his personal and critical insights. The book is a collection of essays that blend fiction and nonfiction, theory and personal experience, and covers topics such as race, gender, identity, and culture.
Nov 30, 2013 · White Girls, Hilton Als’s first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant...
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the ...
White Girls is a nonfiction book by Hilton Als, published November 5, 2013 by McSweeney's. Overview. Combining elements of memoir, criticism, fiction and non-fiction, the book's essays create a portrait of "white girls", a category in which Als includes everyone from Truman Capote to Flannery O’Connor and even Malcolm X.
Apr 23, 2012 · “Girls” is certainly not the only TV show set in New York to feature an all-white cast with few or no people of color.
