Miles once tried to explain to the critic Leonard Feather that the blues was not about suffering and pain, emotions critics had consistently read into Miles's "cool pose": "You don't know how to play better just because you've suffered..
Cool masculinity or "cool pose," according to Majors and Billson, is a way of being for many black males, a performance born out of the stark realities of centuries-old white supremacy and ongoing oppression.
This sequence would end well with cooling poses such as Shoulderstand, Plough Pose, Legs-up-the-Wall and/or Bridge Pose.
THE art-fashion crowd struck a cool pose at the opening party for "On Shuffle," an indie rock-themed show at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea.
But on the phone the author adopted a cooler pose: he "never thought the book had anything shocking in it," he said, ever the provocateur.
Black teenagers affect a "cool pose," but their innermost desires and values -- carefully hidden, even from themselves -- are practically middle class.
Mr. Mohammed's samples and turntable scratching collude with Mr. Saadiq's guitar, bass and vocals, fusing the warm outreach of the soul man with the cool pose of the hip-hop player.
Orlando Patterson would have us believe that some black men are disconnected from the American socioeconomic mainstream because of their membership in a "cool pose" subculture that celebrates conspicuous consumption, sexual conquest and violence.
In a 2006 New York Times Op-Ed article titled "A Poverty of the Mind," the sociologist Orlando Patterson suggested that the most important liability for many African-American men isn't joblessness or poor education, but what he called the "cool pose," a masculine stance of power and invulnerability that made hanging out, doing drugs and risking going to jail a worthy career.
