Veteran Black Professors Share Tales of Being
The New Kid on the Academic Block
By Robin V. Smiles
WASHINGTON
Dr. Trudier Harris-Lopez is one of the most well-known, widely published and well-respected scholars in African American literary studies. And after 30 years in the academy, she has her share of battle scars to show.
As the first Black female professor to integrate the various academic departments in which she has taught, dealing with colleagues who have been unable to imagine her as an equal has only been par for the course.
