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 familiarIn 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 settings like Convocation. They are also not able to wear bedroom shoes, bonnets, or durags to class or the cafeteria.” Dr Brown goes on to let the students know: “Faculty will be empowered to respond to students who are inappropriately dressed based on these guidelines.”The policy has produced polarized