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The hoodie has been — even if it was not called so — it’s been an icon throughout history for good and for bad reasons. The earliest ones that we can trace are from ancient Greece and ancient Rome. The Middle Ages, you see a lot of monks that were wearing garments that were cape-like, with hoods attached, so therefore, “hoodies.” Ladies in the 17th century would wear hoodies to kind of hide themselves when they were going to meet their lovers. And then, of course, there’s the legend, there’s fantasy. There’s the image of the hoodie connected to the grim reaper.There’s the image of the hoodie connected to the executioner. So there’s the dark side of the hoodie.
The modern incarnation of the hoodie — a garment that’s made usually of cotton jersey, that has a hood attached with a drawstring; sometimes it has a marsupial pocket — was introduced in the 1930s by Knickerbocker Knitting Company. Now it’s called Champion. It was meant to keep athletes warm. Of course, though, it was such a functional, comfortable garment that it was very rapidly adopted by workmen everywhere. And then, around the 1980s, it also gets adopted by hip-hop and B-boys, skateboarders, and it takes on this kind of youth street culture. It was, at the same time, super-comfortable, perfect for the streets and also had that added value of anonymity when you needed it. And then we have Mark Zuckerberg, who defies convention of respectable attire for businesspeople.But interestingly, it’s also a way to show how power has changed. If you’re wearing a two-piece suit, you might be the bodyguard. The real powerful person is wearing a hoodie with a T-shirt and jeans.
It’s easy to think of the physical aspects of the hoodie. You can immediately think of wearing the hood up, and you feel this warmth and this protection, but at the same time, you can also feel the psychological aspects of it. I mean, think of donning a hoodie, all of a sudden, you feel more protected, you feel that you are in your own shell.
We know very well what the hoodie has come to signify in the past few years in the United States. When Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American kid, was shot by a neighborhood vigilante, and Million Hoodie Marches happened all over the United States, in which people wore hoodies with the hood up and marched in the streets against this kind of prejudice. It doesn’t happen that often for a garment to have so much symbolism and history and that encompasses so many different universes as the hoodie.
So, like all garments, especially all truly utilitarian garments, it is very basic in its design. But at the same time, it has a whole universe of possibilities attached.
Transcript retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/paola_antonelli_the_3_000_year_history_of_the_hoodie/transcript
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TED Talk
A Sample Interpretation
Developed by Shanna Grossinger
Time Required for Activity: 20 mins
Competencies Address:
- Spatial structuring
- Interpreting: English to ASL
- ASL lexicon
Aim:
To practice spatial structuring in an interpretation from English to ASL.
Objective(s):
Learners will:
- structure space accurately
- interpreting English explanatory text into English.
Step One: Prediction & Preparation
The video you will interpret is an edited version of a TED talk by Paolo Antonelli. The video is 3:32 in length. She is a fashion designer and will talk about the history of the “hoodie” from ancient to modern times. Spend some time thinking about the different contexts she might address and what ways that those different ideas might be referenced when interpreted into a visual-spatial language.
Depending on the level of preparation you desire, you can also:
- Preview the video. (The video will display in a pop-up window.)
- Read the Transcript.
Step Two: Interpret the Video into ASL
Now that you have prepared, interpret the 3:32 video. Record your own work so that you can use it for analysis later. The video is designed for simultaneous interpretation. However, you can pause the video if you would like to use a consecutive approach.
Play the source video. (The video will display in a pop-up window.)
Step Three: Assess Your Work
Review your interpretation paying attention to the way you structured space.
- How did you handle the speaker’s discussion of the hoodie at different times in history?
- How did you compare her descriptions of the positive and negative history associated with the history?
- How did you mark the changes in topics such as the hoodie in the Middle Ages compared to modern versions of it?
Now watch a sample interpretation created by Doug Bowen-Bailey. This interpretation is only one way of approaching this work. It provides some examples of how to structure space in an interpretation of this video.
Step Four: Re-Interpret the Video into ASL
Now that you have assesssed your first interpretation and seen a sample interpretation from Doug Bowen-Bailey, re-do your interpretation.
Record your own work so that you can use it for analysis later. The video is designed for simultaneous interpretation. However, you can pause the video if you would like to use a consecutive approach.
Play the source video. (The video will display in a pop-up window.)
