Exposing Myths About African-American Women

Exposing Myths About African-American Women: Publicists often advise authors to be ready at a moment’s notice to give the “elevator speech” about their books to anybody and everybody who will listen.

Dr. Melissa V. Harris-Perry, the Tulane University professor, MSNBC commentator and pundit, is no stranger to media interviews. When she talked to Diverse just weeks before the book was due out, she was still working on that sound bite about her latest book: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press, September 20, 2011, ISBN-10: 0300165412 ISBN-13: 978-0300165418, pp. 392).