Books published by West Virginia University Press

"Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." --Morgan JerkinsWhen 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 she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles.Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions.

This field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography offers a call to action - to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies.

This field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography offers a call to action - to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies.

A novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. Ghosts of New York explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings - a bar, a night market, a recording studio - that alternate between familiar and unsettling.

In 1921 Blair Mountain in West Virginia was the site of a battle pitting miners against agents of the coal barons. Ninety years later, the site became embroiled in a second struggle, as activists fought to save the battlefield from destruction. This book is the moving and sometimes harrowing story of the fight to save this irreplaceable landscape.

Based on rigorous and replicated research, this is the first book to show why and how faculty who wish to focus on learning, rather than sorting or judging, might proceed. It includes honest reflection on what makes ungrading challenging, and testimonials about what makes it transformative.

Examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement, a community born out of a massacre of landless Brazilian workers in 1996. Based on fieldwork, David Meek makes the provocative argument that critical forms of food systems education are integral to agrarian social movements' survival.