Grégory Pierrot

Decolonize Hipsters

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Why would the first book of the series Decolonize That! Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas take a shot at hipsters? How can white youth in skinny jeans and ironic t-shirts attempting to recycle mason jars and brew decent craft beer be held responsible for colonialism? This book traces the history of hipsters to the histories of appropriating cultures born out of transatlantic slavery. In his fierce, funny and sometimes shocking book, Grégory Pierrot takes a deep dive into gentrification, cultural appropriation, and white supremacy. What makes this book so special is Pierrot's easy fusion of his professorial e… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Shringarpure, Bhakti (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-68219-317-4
EAN: 9781682193174
Produktnummer: 37200431
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 148 S.
Masse: H17.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.2 cm 146 g
Gewicht: 146

Über den Autor

Grégory 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.