No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools

Autor/in	Banks, Patricia A.
Titel	No Dreadlocks Allowed: Race, Hairstyles, and Exclusion in Schools
Quelle	In: Multicultural Perspectives, 25 (2023) 1, S.30-38 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-0960
DOI	10.1080/15210960.2022.2162525
Schlagwörter	Cultural Differences; African American Students; Public Schools; Racism; Human Body; Social Bias; Ethnic Stereotypes; Racial Discrimination; Educational Environment; African American Culture; School Policy; Labeling (of Persons); Negative Attitudes; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kultureller Unterschied; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Rassismus; Menschlicher Körper; National stereotype; Nationales Stereotyp; Racial bias; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schulpolitik; Labeling-Ansatz; Negative Fixierung
Abstract	While the educational exclusion of students who wear hairstyles linked to people of African descent has garnered significant media attention, there has been little scholarly investigation of this phenomenon. Drawing on content analysis of dress codes in Texas public schools, this article addresses this gap in knowledge by conceptually and empirically elaborating how students who wear dreadlocks are stigmatized in schools. Engaging sociological theory asserting that stigmatization entails unfair treatment and negative labeling, I show how students who wear dreadlocks in some schools are subject to structural discrimination and stereotyping. More specifically, I develop a typology of negative stereotyping and negative treatment faced by students who wear dreadlocks in some schools. By elaborating how students who wear dreadlocks are stigmatized, this article advances theory on culture and inequality in schools. Practically, given growing efforts across the United States to pass legislation that makes school prohibitions on hairstyles linked to people of African descent illegal, it is especially important to understand how these hair bans stigmatize students. (As Provided).
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