Generations of future scholars will cite this text for its agenda-setting analysis on phenotype, hair style, and hair texture of Black women candidates, and for its creative use of tools to evaluate these topics.
Nadia E. Brown is a University Faculty Scholar and an Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making.
Danielle Casarez Lemi is a Tower Center Fellow at the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University.