Sisterlocking Discoarse: Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.

Finalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education Category

In Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman. In these ten essays, Valerie Lee traverses disciplines and genres, weaving ...