Her Hair Doesn’t Play Fair! How Black Women In The Uk Are Utilising The Digital Sphere To Advocate Against Hair Discrimination In Professional And Educational Environments
(2023) SOLM02 20231Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- Currently, in the United Kingdom, the Equality Act 2010 prohibits hair discrimination, however many cases still arise that prove that it still occurs in workplaces and schools. This can range from cutting students' hair to expelling them for having dreadlocks. Not only this but from my own personal experiences in this field. This research looks at the works of the organisations ‘The Halo Collective’ and ‘World Afro Day’ to investigate their online processes specifically on Instagram to illustrate how they are advocating to normalise black hair in workplaces and schools and abolish hair discrimination. This research will use the qualitative methods of autoethnography and netnography to investigate how this process takes place in the digital... (More)
- Currently, in the United Kingdom, the Equality Act 2010 prohibits hair discrimination, however many cases still arise that prove that it still occurs in workplaces and schools. This can range from cutting students' hair to expelling them for having dreadlocks. Not only this but from my own personal experiences in this field. This research looks at the works of the organisations ‘The Halo Collective’ and ‘World Afro Day’ to investigate their online processes specifically on Instagram to illustrate how they are advocating to normalise black hair in workplaces and schools and abolish hair discrimination. This research will use the qualitative methods of autoethnography and netnography to investigate how this process takes place in the digital sphere. The arguments will be built on the framework of the Critical Race Theory concept of Intersectionality as the subjects of the study are black women with myself as the researcher included. The results of this study will demonstrate how black women in the UK especially are using the digital sphere as a platform to advocate against hair discrimination using Instagram as a tool for advocacy by employing it as a forum for deliberation, normalisation and participation. (Less)
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- author
- Abakah, Jacqueline Obenewah LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SOLM02 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- hair discrimination, black Hair, hair normalisation, advocacy, intersectionality, critical race theory
- language
- English
- id
- 9126590
- date added to LUP
- 2023-06-27 16:53:48
- date last changed
- 2023-06-27 16:53:48
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