In this seminal law review article on Black hair discrimination Professor Caldwell utilizes the case Rogers v.

Recent occurrences of black hairstyles being used to discriminate. American Airlines to demonstrate how employer grooming codes can be used to discriminate against Black women at the intersection of race and gender. Men and women outside the black. When Kim Kardashian wore cornrows in 2018 she called them Bo Derek inspired in reference to the hairstyle worn by a white actress in the 1979 film 10.

At the workplace during travel and even at leisure Black women face an additional layer of discrimination. In recent years federal state and local government entities have increasingly recognized that policies that discriminate against traditionally Black hairstyles including but not limited to locs cornrows twists braids Afros fades and Bantu knots qualify as discrimination on the basis of race. Updated 351 PM ET Sun March 8 2020.

The growing prevalence of natural hairstyles among blacks does not always mean growing acceptance. In Rogers a Black female employee of American Airlines filed. By Leah Asmelash CNN.

Black hair has a long history of being politicized and stigmatized in the workplace for men as well as women said Lori Tharps a professor at Temple University and co-author of Hair Story. Army Regulation 6701 guidelines for grooming are released and banned several hairstyles commonly worn by African American women in the armed forces including braids twists and cornrows. The New York City Commission on Human Rights recognized a problem of discrimination.

Unfortunately this is far from the first time discrimination against black hairstyles has made the headlines in the United States. Its an issue black people face within the black community and outside said Leila Noelliste founder and editor of the Black Girl with Long Hair website that our naturally occurring features are characterized as unruly undisciplined unkempt There have been countless hair discrimination occurrences in the workforce. In many cases Black children have been sent home from school or further.

In Maryland Farryn Johnson was fired from waitressing at Hooters in. Black women have spoken out extensively on the discrimination they face in workplaces and schools for their hairstyles. Certainly when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 it is unlikely when considering Title VII and discrimination on the basis of race that it gave much thought to prohibitions on quintessentially Black hairstyles as being part and parcel of racial discrimination.