On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the "American Dirt" controversy
Recently, my latest book, a contemporary novel about a pregnant Latinx anthropologist who has to battle her way through an apocalyptic New Mexico, was labeled "appropriative" — as in, culturally — in an online review. Another way of saying this is I, the author, was accused of writing a culturally …
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