Melissa V. Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane
University where she is the founding director of the project on gender,
race, and politics in the South. Her previous book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black
Political Thought, won the 2005 W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award from the
Nat'l Conference of Black Political Scientists. Here, she reflects on her life and career and on American culture and politics while discussing her new book, Sister Citizen.
