Consuelo’s Reviews > What Was the Hipster? A Sociological Investigation > Status Update

"The hipster is that person, overlapping with declassing or disaffiliating groupings — the starving artist, the starving graduate student, the neo-bohemian, the vegan or bicyclist or skate punk, the would-be blue-collar or post-racial individual — who in fact aligns himself both with rebel subculture and with the dominant class, and opens up a poisonous conduit between the two."