Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Binding:Paperback In American Negra

In American Negra

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio

affectionate light

Publisher: West Virginia University Press

with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker

Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Binding:Paperback In American Negra"Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." Morgan Jerkins When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how