More Hair-Raising Decisions, and How Professor Wendy Greene Combs Through Their Flaws

Authors

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-12-2013

ISSN

2330-1295

Publisher

JOTWELL

Language

en-US

Abstract

If you are looking for an interesting and timely employment discrimination article to read, please consider Black Women Can’t Have Blonde Hair . . . in the Workplace, by Professor Wendy Greene of Cumberland, Samford University, School of Law. In that article, Professor Greene builds upon the work that she began in her article Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race Based Characteristics) Got to Do With It¹ where she argued that characteristics that are commonly associated with a particular racial or ethnic group should fall under Title VII’s current protected categories of race, color, and national origin. Professor Greene also builds upon a seminal work in Critical Race Theory, A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender², which was written by Professor Paulette Caldwell of New York University School of Law more than twenty years ago.

Comments

Article is a response to Black Women Can't Have Blonde Hair . . . in the Workplace by Dr. Wendy Greene, available at SSRN

Recommended Citation

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, More Hair-Raising Decisions, and How Professor Wendy Greene Combs Through Their Flaws , in JOTWELL (2013).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3267