Hair discrimination: The facts

"I felt like an imposter in my own skin. And just to like, feel completely like I wasn’t Jameson, it was impacting, disabling […]  Just being forced to be in one place forever, because that’s easier for people to understand. It’s not who I am."

"One of them looked at me and told me that my hair looks like burnt spaghetti. Later, when I got home, it kind of sank in and that was the first time that I noticed that there was some type of discrimination or like some kind of othering going on just because of my physical features."

While 90% of black girls believe their hair is beautiful, the microaggressions and discrimination she endures have an impact on how she sees herself.

100% of Black elementary school girls in majority-white schools who report experiencing hair discrimination state they experience the discrimination by the age of 10.

Hair discrimination is happening and continues as she gets older.

66% of Black girls in majority-white schools report experiencing hair discrimination compared to 45% of Black girls in all school environments.

47% of Black mothers report having experienced discrimination related to their hair.

81% of Black girls in majority-white schools say they sometimes wish their hair was straight

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