Sisterlocking Discoarse
Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy
- 2021 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Education (Adult Nonfiction)
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 together memoir, literary analysis, legal cases, folklore, letters, travelogues, family photographs, and cartoons to share her story of navigating academia.
