Modern Day Hipster Thesis

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The modern day hipster is dedicated to image and impression management. Everything about the hipster persona is calculated down to the last detail. Race, social class, homes and neighborhoods, subculture, and consumerism are all elements that are essential to analyze and to explain the hipster identity. The modern day hipster adopts the lifestyle of a hip subculture but does not have the a priori knowledge that is associated with the term, hip. The modern day hipster emerges from the hip subcultures of the 1950s and 1960s with the Beboppers and the Beatniks whose lifestyles reflected how they wanted to live and not how they wanted others to perceive them (Leland, Chapter 6). The original hipsters established themselves as separate from the