Apr 08 2021
#FreeTheHair

#FreeTheHair

Presented by Tanner Humanities Center at Online/Virtual Space

The Tanner Humanities Center and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah are thrilled to host Professor Wendy Greene in a virtual conversation with Tanner Humanities Director Erika George. Join us for a discussion at the nexus of equity and creative expression—the cultural significance of creating a respectful and open world for natural hair (the CROWN Act) and the artistry of African hair styles.

 

Greene, a law professor at Drexel University, is a trailblazing U.S. anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher, and advocate who has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing racial, color and gender equity in workplaces and beyond. The definition of race she proposed in her 2008 article “Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got to Do with It?” is being adopted in history-making state and federal legislation known as the C.R.O.W.N. Acts (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Acts): the first laws in the nation to expressly recognize race discrimination is inclusive of the discrimination African descendants’ encounter based upon their natural and protective hairstyles such as afros, twists, locs, and braids.

 

This event is presented in conjunction with Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, now on view at the UMFA. (The exhibition is sold out.)

Admission Info

Free

Dates & Times

2021/04/08 - 2021/04/08

Location Info

Online/Virtual Space

Online/Virtual, UT 00000