Influential shades

Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als in his first book reveals a provocative collection of race, class, sexuality and identity in America. His “ white girls” features the like of Michael Jackson,  Eminem, Louise Brooks, Malcolm X, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor and Flannery O’Connor. Using his subjects to analyse literature, photography, films, music, television, performance, race, gender, sexual orientation and history.

The race is blown up to cartoon proportions, thereby making the situation clear to a white audience.

Hilton Als’s first book since The Women sixteen years ago, finds one of the New Yorker’s boldest cultural critics, debating the vital subjects of race, sexuality and gender under the heading of “White Girls”.

White Girls by Hilton Als, Penguin £ 9.99, 352 pages