{"id":28800,"date":"2013-02-18T01:29:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28800"},"modified":"2015-02-22T02:09:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T02:09:47","slug":"bulletproof-diva-tales-of-race-sex-and-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28800","title":{"rendered":"Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anchor<\/a> an imprint of Random House
\n1997-02-19
\n320 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-385-47123-7<\/p>\n

Lisa Jones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Bulletproof Diva<\/em>, Lisa\u00a0 Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice<\/em> column, “Skin Trade,”\u00a0 to a much larger audience. Chock full of the\u00a0“fierce black girl humor” that has made her\u00a0column so popular, this provocative collection of\u00a0 essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and\u00a0 the politics of style speaks to a young generation\u00a0 of blacks who were raised in an integrated society\u00a0 and are now waiting for America to deliver on its\u00a0 promises of equality. The thirty-seven short\u00a0 pieces and six long essays in Bulletproof\u00a0 Diva<\/em> cover a wide range of topics, many of them\u00a0 extremely controversial. Jones moves smoothly from\u00a0 issues of ethnicity in a changing America,\u00a0 challenging viewpoints on African-American\u00a0 and mixed race identity, to “butt theory”\u00a0 and the roller-coaster politics of black hair. Written in a style that is as appealing as it is\u00a0 unapologetic, Bulletproof Diva<\/em>\u00a0marks the debut of a genuinely gifted young writer\u00a0 with a distinctive voice and a fresh perspective on\u00a0 the black cultural scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair Anchor an imprint of Random House 1997-02-19 320 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-385-47123-7 Lisa Jones In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa\u00a0 Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, “Skin Trade,”\u00a0 to a much larger audience. Chock full of the\u00a0“fierce black girl humor” that has made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,125,8,17,26,394,20],"tags":[13707,861],"class_list":["post-28800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-lisa-jones","tag-random-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}