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noun
A tough, fearless, aloof attitude said to be adopted by black men as a coping mechanism to deal with racial oppression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined in the 1990s by Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson in Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America.
