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An HBCU has banned durags and bonnets. That reinforces anti-Blackness | AD Carson
Tuskegee University’s dress code is a marker of a harmful politics of respectability. In my academic career, it’s become all too familiar In anticipation of the coming school year, the president of Tuskegee University, Dr Mark A Brown, sent welcome letters to students and their parents last month. Part of the message focused on the university’s policy for student attire . A newly enforced dress code prohibits students from wearing “revealing clothing in class, to the cafeteria or in official se…
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