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Finding a Home: How Jewelle Gomez Discovered Herself, and a Place of Safety, Through the Past
As an African American and Native American woman, Jewelle Gomez has been confronting racism since she was a child growing up in Boston. While attending an all-girls high school there, Gomez was asked the same two questions at the beginning of every year: “What is your name?” and “Where are you from?”