Boulton, Chris2024-04-262024-04-262007-01-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/8484http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/88While much has been written on marketing to children, there remains a curious gap in the literature concerning marketing through children. This study considers print ads for three brands of hip-hop clothing for children (Rocawear, Sean John, and Baby Phat) that appeared in Cookie, a parenting magazine aimed at adults. I argue that, by depicting children in a “cool pose” of “flat affect,” these ads violate social expectations and assert "Black Power" through a para-proxemic challenge to the viewer. The result is a prolepsis — or foretaste of the future — which rhymes the child models with their adult equivalents.Consumer Culturechildrenfashionhip-hopcool posepara-proxemicsprolepsisCommunicationarticleARRAY(0x55e4843424d0)