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

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.