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Heinrich, Ursula
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Spring 2023
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2023
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Background: In the United States, we pride ourselves on our ability to create a country that stresses the importance of inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all American citizens regardless of race, color, gender, or sexual orientation. Our elected officials had two opportunities to help stop hair-based discrimination and failed.
Objective: This study aims to research hair-based discrimination faced by African Americans and the need for the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act to become a federal law.
Design and Method: The research method is based on peer-reviewed literature consisting of scholarly articles, journals, dissertations, blogs, and online articles. The research is qualitative in nature and includes literature from 1997 to 2023. Hair-based discrimination, civil rights, and the CROWN Act were studied and are reported in the results section. The main research question is: Should the CROWN Act become a federal law?
Results: The significance of the study is that African Americans with natural-textured hair can be victims of various forms of discrimination.
Conclusion: In the United States, many institutions have hair standards that exclude African Americans with their natural-textured from employment, education, and housing opportunities. This study concludes that the CROWN Act should be a federal law to protect the civil rights of African American and stop hair-based discrimination in the United States.
Keywords: African Americans, Black people, and natural hair.
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