Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A tough, fearless, aloof attitude said to be adopted by black men as a coping mechanism to deal with racial oppression.

Origin

Coined in the 1990s by Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson in Cool Pose: The Dilemmas

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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Forms

plural: cool poses
Singularcool pose
Pluralcool poses

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