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Brazil: Constraining Identities Through “Aesthetic Standards”

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Ethnicity & Race, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Labor, Law

Brazilian journalist and blogger AndrĂ© Forestieri writes [1] [pt] about the rights of an employer to constrain a black employee if he or she does not fit the “aesthetic standards” imposed by society. He illustrates with the case of a student whose teacher in a school she worked wanted her to have straight hair.