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Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex and Hair
Bulletproof Diva Tales of Race Sex and Hair Author:Lisa Jones Jones covers the politics of style in a regular column, "Skin Trade," for the Village Voice , and this collection offers a sampling of her perspective on the contemporary black cultural experience. In essays ranging from an analysis of "supermama" roles for black women in films to the politics of hair care products, she explores what it means to... more » be black in America today. Considering subjects that are seldom treated in the mainstream press, her distinctive voice offers new ways of seeing issues of gender, sex, and ethnicity. Jones, the daughter of writers Amiri Baraka and Hettie Jones, struggles with her own identity as a multicultural woman of the 1990s, weaving personal experiences with her reflections on the world she finds. The resulting essays are sometimes funny, often provocative, and always thought-provoking.« less