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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sisterlocking Discoarse: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look?2. When We Can't Breathe: Generational Spirit-Murder3. Smarts: A Cautionary Tale4. On Learning That I Was Teaching "N——r Literature": or Why It Is Hard to Do Diversity in Academe5. "Pearl Was Shittin' Worms and I Was Supposed to Play Rang-around-the-Rosie?": An African American Woman's Response to the Politics of Labor6. Underground Railroads on Postracial Tracks?7. "Forty Devils Can't Make Me Obey You"8. Cartoons That Saved My Administrative Life9. From Soweto to Harlem, from the Antilles to Accra: One Long Blues Song10. Retirement: There Are No More Monday MorningsEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"Not only is a book like this needed in the academy—this is the book that is needed." — Raechele L. Pope, coauthor of Creating Multicultural Change on Campus

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sisterlocking Discoarse: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look?2. When We Can't Breathe: Generational Spirit-Murder3. Smarts: A Cautionary Tale4. On Learning That I Was Teaching "N——r Literature": or Why It Is Hard to Do Diversity in Academe5. "Pearl Was Shittin' Worms and I Was Supposed to Play Rang-around-the-Rosie?": An African American Woman's Response to the Politics of Labor6. Underground Railroads on Postracial Tracks?7. "Forty Devils Can't Make Me Obey You"8. Cartoons That Saved My Administrative Life9. From Soweto to Harlem, from the Antilles to Accra: One Long Blues Song10. Retirement: There Are No More Monday MorningsEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"Not only is a book like this needed in the academy—this is the book that is needed." — Raechele L. Pope, coauthor of Creating Multicultural Change on Campus

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sisterlocking Discoarse: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look?2. When We Can't Breathe: Generational Spirit-Murder3. Smarts: A Cautionary Tale4. On Learning That I Was Teaching "N——r Literature": or Why It Is Hard to Do Diversity in Academe5. "Pearl Was Shittin' Worms and I Was Supposed to Play Rang-around-the-Rosie?": An African American Woman's Response to the Politics of Labor6. Underground Railroads on Postracial Tracks?7. "Forty Devils Can't Make Me Obey You"8. Cartoons That Saved My Administrative Life9. From Soweto to Harlem, from the Antilles to Accra: One Long Blues Song10. Retirement: There Are No More Monday MorningsEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"Not only is a book like this needed in the academy—this is the book that is needed." — Raechele L. Pope, coauthor of Creating Multicultural Change on Campus