How To Write A Term Paper On Black Hair Discrimination

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Leslie Harding Ingram RHE 306 Jan 18, 2024. Discrimination against black hair is a very controversial topic and an extensive amount of black people feel strongly against people (mainly white) touching their hair, or treating them differently just for the look of their hair. Hair discrimination comes in many forms, one is known as microaggression, which is indirect or unintentional discrimination, an example would be someone randomly coming to touch your hair without permission. That's a form of microaggression, and there is a more direct form of aggression known as racism. The most prominent place of hair discrimination is the workplace, with companies with predominantly white people in charge which make up the rules of the workplace, including …show more content…

The author describes where her culture came from “From my research, I think that the choice to select West African hair braiders is because many Black women, specifically African-Americans, are impressed with the varied styles, products, and prices for services.” She also explains how there is a bond that comes from learning how to braid hair with family members. So discrimination against one person's hair is discriminating against their whole culture and people in their culture. The crown that they wear shouldn't be discriminated against. The term crown was used in an act to prohibit discrimination against any type of hair, mainly black, since crown is what you call a black person afro they used is in the name so it's called the crown act. The Crown Act is an act to protect people who get bullied in the workplace or in school. An article by the legal defense fund talks about black women having the highest percentage of workplace hair discrimination and the Crown Act prohibits people from discriminating against hair texture or style.. …show more content…

The kind of hair that the people want in the white workplace is straight hair because it resembles closely to their white coworkers, but getting straight hair takes time and money and some people may not even feel comfortable in straight hair, so now they are damaging their hair paying a lot of money just to make their boss happy. In some cases the crown act cannot help people like this one young lady who was working at her job got stripped of it because she refused to cut her dreads. Her boss said it was part of their grooming policy, but it was distracting or in the way of her doing her job. Another example the author gives is her personal experience. She was going to elementary school and she had her afro out, a common hairstyle among kids, but her teacher thought differently. She said it was too distracting and got in the way of other students. Every time she would wear her hair out her teacher would discriminate against it and call her out every class it got to the point where her mom didn’t come down to the school to explain why her hair is that big and “gets in the way of other people” they can’t control the way her hair grows or the thickness so she was very confused on why she was being called out all the time. This happened to her as a kid and has stuck with her to this day, so we can see that people's words and actions have an

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