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.finalist For The 2021 Foreword Indies Book Of The Year Award In The Education Categoryin 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. Lee''s Path Is Not Singular Or Linear, But Rather Communal And Circular As She Revisits Her Earliest Years In Her Grandmother''s Home, Advances Through The Professoriate And Senior Administration, And Addresses Her Hopes And Fears For Her Own Children.