Way Too Cool Selling Out Race and Ethics

Name: Way Too Cool Selling Out Race and Ethics
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ISBN: 9780231172943

ISBN-10: 023117294X

ISBN-13: 9780231172943

Edition: 2015

Authors: Shannon Winnubst

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't always a popular commodity. Cool began as a potent aesthetic of post-World War II black culture, embodying a very specific, highly charged method of resistance to white supremacy and the globalized exploitation of capital. Way Too Cool follows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal society. It revisits such watershed events as the…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/8/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Shannon Winnubst is Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern University.