{"product_id":"decolonize-hipsters-paperback","title":"Decolonize Hipsters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrégory Pierrot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBhakti Shringarpure\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderlining 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 \u003cem\u003eDecolonize Hipsters\u003c\/em\u003e, Grégory 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrégory Pierrot\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, co-editor of the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eAn Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-host of the \u003cem\u003eDecolonize That!\u003c\/em\u003e webcast series.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBhakti Shringarpure\u003c\/strong\u003e is editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eWarscapes\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Feminisms: Women Write War\u003c\/em\u003e. She has written for \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAfrica is a Country\u003c\/em\u003e, among other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42159327477895,"sku":"9781682193174","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f1201e08d5f2720f25363f0c09e66dd7.webp?v=1733265796","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/decolonize-hipsters-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}