Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race,Sex,And Hair

by Lisa Jones (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $6.95

  From the trenches of America's cultural landscape resounds the battle cry of Lisa Jones. Part soldier and part satirist of the current wars on racism, sexism, and other insidious social conventions, she has tackled the politics of everything from hair products to Anita Hill in her award-winning Skin Trade column for The Village Voice . Born on New York's Lower East Side to a black nationalist father and Jewish intellectual mother, Lisa was never one to accept the passive role of tragic mulatto . Fierce, funny, and multi-cuti to the core, she has chosen instead to wear her mixed heritage with bold and unabashed flair. The opening essay of this book, for instance, is entitled How I Invented Multiculturalism .