Sisterlocking discoarse : race, gender, and the twenty-first-century academy / Valerie Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Valerie, 1950- author.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

SUNY series, critical race studies in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women in higher education.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

African American women college teachers.

United States.

African American women college teachers--Biography.

Lee, Valerie, 1950-.

Lee, Valerie.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Sisterlocking Discoarse: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look?

2. When We Can't Breathe: Generational Spirit-Murder

3. Smarts: A Cautionary Tale

4. On Learning That I Was Teaching "N

-r Literature": or Why It Is Hard to Do Diversity in Academe

5. "Pearl Was Shittin' Worms and I Was Supposed to Play Rang-around-the-Rosie?": An African American Woman's Response to the Politics of Labor

6. Underground Railroads on Postracial Tracks?

7. "Forty Devils Can't Make Me Obey You"

8. Cartoons That Saved My Administrative Life

9. From Soweto to Harlem, from the Antilles to Accra: One Long Blues Song

10. Retirement: There Are No More Monday Mornings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lee, Valerie, 1950- Sisterlocking discoarse

ISBN:

9781438485850

1438485859

9781438485843

1438485840

OCLC:

1240773401

Publisher Number:

99988852474