Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black
women define their existence in a society which devalues dehumanizes and silences their
beliefs. Placing herself inside of the research Rochelle Brock invites the reader on a journey
of self-exploration as she and seven of her Black female students investigate their collective
journey toward self-awareness in the attempt to liberate their minds and souls from ideological
domination. Throughout Sista Talk attempts to understand the ways in which this
self-exploration informs her pedagogy. Combining Black feminist and Afrocentric Theory with
critical pedagogy this book frames the parameters for an Afrowomanist pedagogy of wholeness
for teaching Black students.
