She had never been to New England before, nor ever been in an all-white environment. She also had had very little personal experience with openly gay people. Most of the whites there were busy talking to each other about Northeastern white culture: they were discussing agents, MFA programs, commissions, theaters, publishers, writers, and teachers who were also white. Joanne was inherently excluded from many of these conversations. Very few of the white people knew anything about contemporary or historical Black literature or visual art, especially regional to the American south.
I don't think -- okay, no comment
