The Deborah Brown Community School, a charter school sponsored by the historically black college Langston University, sent Tiana home and told her parents that their child was in violation of a school policy prohibiting students from wearing “unusual hairstyles” that distract from the school’s “respectful” learning environment.
This past September, during the first week of school, seven-year-old Tiana Parker wore dreadlocks tied in a bright pink bow to her school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Harris ▪ Winter 2014Īt the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington (Victoria Pickering / Flickr) In an era marked by rising inequality and declining economic mobility for most Americans-but particularly for black Americans-the politics of respectability works to accommodate neoliberalism. What started as a philosophy promulgated by black elites to “uplift the race” by correcting the “bad” traits of the black poor has evolved into one of the hallmarks of black politics in the age of Obama.
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