African-American women are subject to greater airport security measures than other passengers at the airport, according to a UT professor.
Sociology assistant professor Simone Browne spoke Tuesday about how African-American women are treated at the airport, both when they are passengers and security officers. The lecture was part of a conference series the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies offers called “Feminist Geographies: Mapping the Spaces, Nations, and States of Being.”
To discuss the challenges African-American women face at the airport, Browne cited an incident when officers asked singer-songwriter Solange Knowles to comply with a search of her natural “Afro” hair at the airport.
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