Abstract
Like one’s skin color, African descended people’s natural hairstyles have served as a basis of African descendants’ racial enslavement, segregation, stigmatization, and discrimination throughout the United States since they arrived on this land—in most cases, forcibly and brutally so. More contemporarily, the denial of educational opportunities, employment, and access to public accommodations on the basis of their natural hairstyles or hair texture is a common occurrence for African descended women, girls, men, and boys.
Recommended Citation
D. W. Greene,
#FREETHEHAIR: How Black Hair is Transforming State and Local Civil Rights Legislation,
22
Nev. L.J.
1117
(2022).
Available at:
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/nlj/vol22/iss3/10
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