What is Coolness?
The aesthetics of cool developed mainly in the form of a behavioural attitude practiced by black
men in the United States at the time of slavery and residential segregation. Joel Dinerstein sees
as essential for cool behaviour the control of emotions, to remain relaxed in a performance, to
develop a unique style, and to be “emotionally expressive within an artistic frame of restraint”
(Dinerstein 1999, 241). A cool attitude helped slaves and former slaves to cope with exploitation
or simply made it possible to walk streets at night. Overt aggression of black people was
punishable with death. To be cool means to remain calm even under stress, and for African
Americans“to be cool”represented a “paradoxical fusion of submission and subversion”(Holt
1972, 153), appearing as an only apparent submission constantly bordering on insult. During
slavery, any provocation had to remain on the level of passive resistance, reuniting within one
What is Coolness?
The aesthetics of cool developed mainly in the form of a behavioural attitude practiced by black
men in the United States at the time of slavery and residential segregation. Joel Dinerstein sees
as essential for cool behaviour the control of emotions, to remain relaxed in a performance, to
develop a unique style, and to be “emotionally expressive within an artistic frame of restraint”
(Dinerstein 1999, 241). A cool attitude helped slaves and former slaves to cope with exploitation
or simply made it possible to walk streets at night. Overt aggression of black people was
punishable with death. To be cool means to remain calm even under stress, and for African
Americans“to be cool”represented a “paradoxical fusion of submission and subversion”(Holt
1972, 153), appearing as an only apparent submission constantly bordering on insult. During
slavery, any provocation had to remain on the level of passive resistance, reuniting within one
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