Racial Culture
A Critique
Chapter One
DIFFERENCE DISCOURSE
Plaintiff is a black woman who seeks $ 10,000 damages, injunctive, and
declaratory relief against enforcement of a grooming policy of the
defendant American Airlines that prohibits employees in certain
employment categories from wearing an all-braided hairstyle ... She
alleges that the policy violates her rights under the Thirteenth
Amendment of the United States Constitution, under Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act ... in that it discriminates against her as a woman,
and more specifically as a black woman ... plaintiff assert[s] that
the "corn row" style has a special significance for black women. She
contends that it "has been, historically, a fashion and style adopted by
Black American women, reflective of cultural, historical essence of the
Black women in American society." The style was "popularized" so to
speak, within the larger society, when Cicely Tyson adopted the same for
an appearance on nationally viewed Academy Awards presentation several
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