What is a "Hipster" according to Norman Mailer in 1957?

It is on this bleak scene that a phenomenon has appeared: the American existentialist—the hipster, the man who knows that if our collective condition is to live with instant death by atomic war, relatively quick death by the State as l’univers concentrationnaire, or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious instinct stifled

via "The White Negro," - Norman Mailer, Dissent Fall 1957

I don't think it means that anymore. Although hipsters are mostly still white.

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