English Explanatory Dictionary

cool pose

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tough, fearless, aloof attitude said to be adopted by black men as a coping mechanism to deal with racial oppression.

Word forms

cool pose cool poses

Etymology

Coined in the 1990s by Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson in Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America.

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