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#NatKingCole and the Cost of the “Cool Pose"
"[Cole] was always under the glare of the public eye — Whites waiting for him to crack; Black’s praying that he wouldn’t — in ways that were largely unprecedented for a Black American to that point."
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Nat King Cole and the Cost of the “Cool Pose” by Mark Anthony Neal
In his classic study, psychologist Richard Majors (with Janet Mancini Billson) writes, “Cool Pose is a distinctive coping mechanism that…
