politics

An HBCU has banned durags and bonnets. That reinforces anti-Blackness

Tuskegee University’s dress code is a marker of a harmful politics of respectability. In my academic career, it’s become all too familiar

An HBCU has banned durags and bonnets. That reinforces anti-Blackness

TL;DR

  • Tuskegee University's dress code is a sign of harmful respectability politics.
  • The author has encountered this issue frequently in their academic career.