Come join us for a candid discussion touching on the C.R.O.W.N. Act and Hair Discrimination.
Join the Richland Library's African American History and Culture Events Committee for a candid discussion touching on the C.R.O.W.N. Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act) and Hair Discrimination. The program will have a panel discussion and a Q&A session for the audience to participate in. This will be an in-person and online event.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina
Author of Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic (University Press of Florida, 2009) and co-editor of Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for Development in the Americas (Michigan State University Press, 2012).
Director of the Center of Law, Policy, & Social Action at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Definition of race she proposed in her 2008 article, “Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got to Do with It?”, (republished in 2021) is being adopted in history-making state and federal legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N. Acts.
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Join the Richland Library's African American History and Culture Events Committee for a candid discussion touching on the C.R.O.W.N. Act and Hair Discrimination.
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