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Tress Code: Hair, Identity, and the Politics of Black Womanhood in the Professional World
Tress Code: Hair, Identity, and the Politics of Black Womanhood in the Professional World
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104707
- ISBN
- 9798288860225
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Tress Code: Hair, Identity, and the Politics of Black Womanhood in the Professional World
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Indiana University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 221 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Rojas, Fabio.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation examines how Black women strategically construct and negotiate their professional identities through their hair. The study develops a life-course process of racialized organizational control through the lens of Black women's hair. Drawing on 60 interviews with Black women professionals across law, medicine, academia, and business consulting, this study explores what Black women professionals are taught to leave behind when they go to work, and how they respond across time. Hair emerges as a key site of identity management, institutional conformity, and resistance. Using symbolic interactionism, racialized organizations, intersectionality, and inhabited institutionalism, this study shows how early socialization teaches Black girls to view their hair as politically charged. These lessons are later adapted based on industry, geography, class, and career stage. Chapter 3 explores how family, schools, and media instill beauty norms, and anticipation of white workplace expectations. Chapter 4 shows how racialized appearance control is enforced informally through peer surveillance, ambiguity, and cultural codes. Chapter 5 reveals how Black women enact complex strategies of resistance and adaptation that vary across career stages and professions. Overall, the findings show that professionalization and identity regulation does not begin at work, but in early socialization. Ultimately, this dissertation advances a theory of early socialization as institutional training and reframes identity management as a form of embodied labor, deeply shaped by power, visibility, and institutional control. Lastly, it offers a model for understanding how institutions shape belonging not just through rules, but through affect, aesthetics, and symbolic discipline.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 일반주제명
- Black studies
- 기타저자
- Indiana University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2025.
■520 ▼aThis dissertation examines how Black women strategically construct and negotiate their professional identities through their hair. The study develops a life-course process of racialized organizational control through the lens of Black women's hair. Drawing on 60 interviews with Black women professionals across law, medicine, academia, and business consulting, this study explores what Black women professionals are taught to leave behind when they go to work, and how they respond across time. Hair emerges as a key site of identity management, institutional conformity, and resistance. Using symbolic interactionism, racialized organizations, intersectionality, and inhabited institutionalism, this study shows how early socialization teaches Black girls to view their hair as politically charged. These lessons are later adapted based on industry, geography, class, and career stage. Chapter 3 explores how family, schools, and media instill beauty norms, and anticipation of white workplace expectations. Chapter 4 shows how racialized appearance control is enforced informally through peer surveillance, ambiguity, and cultural codes. Chapter 5 reveals how Black women enact complex strategies of resistance and adaptation that vary across career stages and professions. Overall, the findings show that professionalization and identity regulation does not begin at work, but in early socialization. Ultimately, this dissertation advances a theory of early socialization as institutional training and reframes identity management as a form of embodied labor, deeply shaped by power, visibility, and institutional control. Lastly, it offers a model for understanding how institutions shape belonging not just through rules, but through affect, aesthetics, and symbolic discipline.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0093.
■650 4▼aSociology
■650 4▼aWomens studies
■650 4▼aBlack studies
■653 ▼aAppearance-based discrimination
■653 ▼aOrganizational control
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■653 ▼aProfessional socialization
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■653 ▼aWorkplace policies
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
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