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, Gregory 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.
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