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What the Tuskegee Dress Code Debate Reveals About Institutional Power
['Branden D. Elmore']
Inside Higher Ed
It is about institutional power (or put more rightly, <power>).
Tuskegee’s policy has reignited a debate, familiar to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, over professionalism, respectability politics and Black identity.
Read in its entirety, the Tuskegee policy does more than address dress.
In a message about the dress code, Tuskegee President Mark A.
Had a predominantly white institution adopted a similar policy, many scholars would immediately analyze it through the lens of organizational culture, identity and institutional power.