Fashion Alert: Skate Boarding Culture in Hip-Hop

Fashion Alert: Skate Boarding Culture in Hip-Hop, originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

Bronx, nyc

we all know america loves to take the ideas, arts, and energy of subcultures (e.g. jazz, blues, hip-hop, rock, reggae, che, buddhism and asian characters) and churn them into mass commercial pop to be consumed by youth. So one of the trends I have noticed to re-surface is skatboarding. However, traditionally skateboarding has been a white and suburban middle-class dominated sub-culture. Now black youth in bed-stuy and the bronx are all over vans, converses and skateboards! Let's see what happens.