Tuskegee University Bans Durags and Bonnets, Sparks Anti-Blackness Debate

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 s...

By AD Carson