Part VIII: Policy, You Nasty P
White culture and dominance is still prevalent in US society as well as elsewhere: and it is enforced by policy. But how, exactly, has hair entered into policy of the US? We touched on it earlier when talking about race based discrimination ending in the workforce. What the policy did not address was hair. As stated earlier: one can change their hair but not their skin. To make any excuse possible to still not hire Black people into their companies or enlist them in their schools, policy makers had to get devious. Playing on the stereotypes that Black people’s hair was unclean and unkempt, policies were put forward to make any and all excuses about not hiring/admitting someone because their hair did not fit workplace/school policy of ‘tidy’ or ‘acceptable’ hair. It was an effort to preserve white spaces. And it was legal to do so. It IS legal to do so in many states, still…
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