27%OFF
Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics
Shannon Winnubst
€ 33.99
€ 24.81
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 2 graphs, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
341 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172950
SKU
V9780231172950
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12
About Shannon Winnubst
Shannon Winnubst is professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Queering Freedom and editor of Reading Bataille Now.
Reviews for Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics
Way Too Cool constitutes a significant and entirely original intervention into the literature on neoliberalism and biopolitics. The book's range, depth, and precision are breathtaking.
Lynne Huffer, author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Se With keen, deliberate intellectual insight and daring, Winnubst elevates the discussion of cool to its rightful place ... Read more
Lynne Huffer, author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Se With keen, deliberate intellectual insight and daring, Winnubst elevates the discussion of cool to its rightful place ... Read more