Lee Sisterlocking Discoarse

Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8586-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Valerie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Valerie Lee is Professor Emerita of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings and the editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature.