Fashion Trend Setters informs about how non-black peoples imitate black culture and is the 12th activity in the ECG Black History Month (BHM) series. Starting with:
Activity #1: The Original People
Activity #2: What Makes Black People Black
Activity #3: The Lebombo & Ishango Bones
Activity #4: Pre-Colonial Africa
Activity #5: The African Diaspora
Activity #6: Slavery in the Americas
Activity #7: The Power of the Reconstruction Era
Activity #8: More on the Black Codes and Jim Crow
Activity #9: Anti-Black Racist Propaganda
Activity #10: Blacks As Artists and Subjects
Activity #11: Culture and Music Innovators
This 20-Activity series provides supplemental learning for each school day of the month of February 2023. The first activity is FREE but each subsequent activity will be offered at a discount during BHM. Activities will be uploaded throughout the month of February. Come back each day for the latest activity.
The activities contain a vocabulary section to ensure students are comprehending the material, a reading section which includes much of the vocabulary and introduces students to the topic, a STEM section which requires students to scientifically think about the material and may include vocabulary, and a writing section which requires students to reflect on the material or answer the prompt using evidence or by making inferences.
The Brief Student Reading:
As stated in lesson number 11, Black people of all races and nationalities have always been innovators of world culture. Black people have left evidence of themselves and their creations in every corner of the world. The same can be said about the trends in fashion they’ve started.
Most Westerners have seen images of Viking warriors wearing the double-horned helmet, however, most don’t know that an African people, known widely today as pygmies, also wore the Double-horned helmet before the white Vikings did.
Evidence of this can be found in the book The First Americans Were Africans: Documented Evidence by Dr. David Imhotep. Pygmy images were carved into Viking sleds. The small Pygmy women wore the double-horned helmets.
Fashion icons such as Grace Jones and Tina Turner are cherished in the Black community.
Today, entertainers such as Kanye West, Rhianna, Beyonce and Sean “Puffy” Combs (earlier) are leaders in the fashion industry and are creating fashion trends that the youthful populations of the world are following.
It was once stated in a Tariq Nasheed film that designers and stores often choose Black models because the youth want to seem cool by dressing as Black people do.
End of Brief Student Reading:
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