Bücher von Gregory Pierrot

Nur wenige Spezies unserer urbanen Fauna werden leidenschaftlicher verachtet als der Hipster. Mit dreister Ironie entflieht er hakenschlagend jedem Definitionsversuch - und doch wissen wir genau, wenn wir einen vor uns haben. Hipster sind vor allem immer die anderen, sie sind kulturelle Ware, ready-made Meme, die pseudocoole Avantgarde der Gentrifizierung und die Personifikation eines traumerischen Kapitalismus mit reinem Gewissen. Doch Grgory Pierrot taucht viel tiefer in die Geschichte der Hipster ein - in eine Geschichte von Kolonialismus, Ausbeutung, Verdrngung und Aneignung Schwarzer Kultur. Es ist Zeit, den Hipsterhabitus und seine Produkte, die wir voller Hassliebe absorbieren, aufzudrseln, zu berdenken, aufzulsen, aufzurumen, zu sortieren, zu dezentrieren - eben zu dekolonialisieren. Dieses elegant-tzende Bestimmungsbuch gibt dazu Anleitung.

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. InDecolonize Hipsters, Grgory 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.

Explores the cultural history of the black avenger, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture. The book tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the US occupation of Haiti in 1915.