• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know much about this, but maybe some reading could give us some insight:

    The politics of regulating Black hair is a contemporary example of what Frantz Fanon refers to as imperial hegemony, the supplanting and reconditioning of the colonized subject at the (individual) psychological and (social) institutional levels. Source

    • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I’m not denying that it happened or even continues to happen. I know that to be true. My point is that just because a policy on hair ends up being applied to a black person doesn’t make the policy about regulating black hair. In this case, I brlit it is about making boys conform.