Lisa Jones Biography

Lisa Jones has tackled the politics of everything from hair products to Anita Hill in her award-winning Skin Trade column for The Village Voice. Co-author of three books with Spike Lee Jones' best selling book Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race Sex and Hair burst onto the scene to great critical acclaim. Now she brings her unique perspective and inimitable attitude to the campus stage for a rare look at the issues which tease tempt torture and terrify black women in the '90s. Fierce funny and multiculti to the core she has chosen instead to wear her mixed heritage with bold and unabashed flair. The opening essay of Bulletproof Diva for instance is entitled: How I Invented Multiculturalism - an achievement Lisa considers her true claim to fame. In Mama's White she imagines a calling card for herself that would read something like this: My mother is white. And I as you may or may not have figured out am black. This is how I choose to define myself and this is how America chooses to define me. I have no regrets about my racial classification other than to lament off and on that classifications exist period.

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