Decolonize Hipsters - Grégory Pierrot

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Résumé :
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes and ready-made meme. But frightening as it is to imagine, for more than a century hipsters have been lurking among us. Defined by their appearances and the cloud of meaning attached to them--the cool vanguard of gentrification, the personification of capitalism with a conscience--hipsters are all looks, and these looks are a visual timeline to America's past and present. Underlining this timeline is the pattern of American popular culture's love/hate/theft relationship with Black culture. Yet the pattern of recycling has reached a chilling point: the 21st century hipster made all possible past fads into new trends, including and especially the old uncool. In Decolonize Hipsters, G?rgory Pierrot gives us a field guide to the phenomenon, a symptom and vanguard of the wave of aggressive white supremacist sentiment now oozing from around the globe.--

Biographie:

Gr?gory Pierrot?is a professor at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is the author of?The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture, co-editor of the forthcoming?An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions, and co-host of the?Decolonize That!?webcast series.

Bhakti Shringarpure?is editor-in-chief of?Warscapes?magazine. She is the author of?Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital?and co-editor of the forthcoming?Insurgent Feminisms: Women Write War. She has written for?The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and?Africa is a Country, among other places.