Lisa Doris Alexander

Lisa Doris Alexander is associate professor in Wayne State University’s Department of African American Studies. She is author of the books Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades and When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight, and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime. Her work has appeared in Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues; NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture;the Journal of American History;and the Journal of Popular Film and Television.