| 词条 | Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers |
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| name = Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:RadicalChic.jpg | caption = Cover of the first edition | author = Tom Wolfe | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = New Journalism | publisher = Farrar, Straus & Giroux | release_date = 1970 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 153 | isbn = 0-553-14444-8 | oclc= 219920390 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe. The book, Wolfe's fourth, is composed of two articles by Wolfe, "These Radical Chic Evenings", first published in June 1970 in New York magazine, about a gathering Leonard Bernstein held for the Black Panther Party, and "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers", about the response of many minorities to San Francisco's poverty programs. Both essays looked at the conflict between black rage and white guilt.[1] "Radical Chic"The first piece is set in the duplex on Park Avenue in Manhattan inhabited by conductor Leonard Bernstein, his wife the actress Felicia Cohn Montealegre, and their three children. Bernstein assembled many of his wealthy socialite friends to meet with representatives of the controversial Black Panthers and discuss ways to help their cause.[2] The party was a typical affair for Bernstein, a longtime Democrat, who was known for hosting civil rights leaders at such parties.[3] The Bernsteins' usual staff of white South Americans served the party.[4] Some of the Bernsteins' typical friends in the arts and guests in journalism (including Oscar-nominated director Otto Preminger and television reporter Barbara Walters) are labeled the "radical chic", as Wolfe characterizes them as pursuing radical ends for social reasons, partially because organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had become mainstream.[1] Wolfe's criticism is implicitly of the general phenomenon of white guilt and armchair agitation becoming facets of high fashion.[5] When Time magazine later interviewed a minister of the Black Panthers about Bernstein's party, the official said of Wolfe: "You mean that dirty, blatant, lying, racist dog who wrote that fascist disgusting thing in New York magazine?"[1] "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers"The second part of Wolfe's book is set at the Office of Economic Opportunity in San Francisco which was in charge of administering many of the anti-poverty programs of the time. Wolfe presents the office as corrupt, continually gamed by hustlers diverting cash into their own pockets. The essay centers on the irony of these failed programs fortifying not the diets but the resentment and contempt of the Black, Chicano, Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Samoan communities of San Francisco.[2] Wolfe describes hapless bureaucrats (the Flak Catchers) whose function was reduced to taking abuse, or "mau-mauing" (in reference to the intimidation tactics employed in Kenya's anti-colonial Mau Mau Uprising) from intimidating young Blacks and Samoans, who are seen as reveling in the newfound vulnerability of "the Man". The flak-catchers smile pathetically, allowing their tormentors to indulge themselves in abuse; the process is seen as a farcical but useful expedient, condescending toward the resentment of these communities. He described one mau-mauer who would show up at the offices and hand over icepicks, switchblades and straight razors that he said were taken from gangs, in exchange for payments from the program. As a result, much of the money of these programs was not reaching its intended recipients, rendering the programs largely ineffective.[1] Cultural impactThe phrase "radical chic" has entered into the political and cultural lexicon to describe the adoption of radical or quasi-radical causes by members of the wealthy high-society and celebrity class.[3] Both essays were later reprinted in Wolfe's collection The Purple Decades, indicating that he considered them among his best work.[5][6] Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is cited in David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster in the essay on "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky". Wallace recommends reading it to understand Dostoevsky's disillusionment as a young rich socialist when he met the dregs of Russian society in prison. References1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904627,00.html? | work = Time | title = Fish in the Brandy Snifter | date = 1970-12-21 | author = Timothy Foote}} 2. ^1 {{Cite web | url = http://www.tomwolfe.com/RadicalChic.html | title =Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers | work = Tomwolfe.com | accessdate = 2007-07-22}} 3. ^1 {{Cite news | work = The New York Times | date = 1990-10-15 | title = Leonard Bernstein, 72, Music's Monarch, Dies | author = Donal Henahan}} 4. ^{{Cite journal | journal = Journal of Social History | year = 1999 | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | author = Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth | title = How to Behave Sensitively: Prescriptions for Interracial Conduct from the 1960s to the 1990s | doi = 10.1353/jsh.1999.0064 | pages = 409}} 5. ^1 {{Cite news | work = Financial Times | date = 1983-04-09 | title = Cry Wolfe; The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe}} 6. ^{{Cite news | title = Tom Wolfe and His Dissecting Pen | author = Jonathan Yardley | date = 1982-11-07 | work = The Washington Post}} External links
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