young black men knowing jordan and nike sb and nike history is fashion knowledge.
and i wish their interests were taken into account when planning school curriculums instead of this ridiculous need for our curriculum to be planned around the white experience and white history
if we taught hip hop as poetry and nike as fashion history black kids would be killin the Literature/Home Ec games
absolutely. their interests are entirely excluded and also entirely invalidated even by the more “artistic” fashion world. if i say i know the styles of like 3 miu miu heels and a black boy says he knows everything about jordans over the course of more than his entire lifetime, people are more impressed with the miu miu knowledge, even though nike has informed and encouraged so much in fashion.
if someone black says they know a lot about hip hop, it’s seen as unimpressive, invalid, and inherent like “of course you know, you’re Black” or “that’s easy”. no matter how often they had to learn, earn, understand, pay attention, deconstruct things, be enveloped in culture. but if someone says they know 3 classical compositions people are impressed. the world should be made more relevant to the people that are setting standards for mainstream culture to steal from while invalidating.
