Crucet Jennine Capo - My Time Among The Whites Notes From An Unfinished Education - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers essays on being an accidental American an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness In this sharp and candid collection of essays critically acclaimed writer and first - generation American Jennine Cap Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Raised in Miami and the daughter of Cuban refugees Crucet examines the political and personal contours of American identity and the physical places where those contours find themselves smashed: be it a rodeo town in Nebraska a university campus in upstate New York or Disney World in Florida. Crucet illuminates how she came to see her exclusion from aspects of the theoretical American Dream despite her family's attempts to fit in with white American culture beginning with their ill - fated plan to name her after the winner of the Miss America pageant. In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt exist and in the face of all signals saying otherwise perhaps even thrive in a country that never imagined them here.
Title: My Time Among The Whites Notes From An Unfinished Education
Author(s): Crucet Jennine Capo
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250299437
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/3/2019
Category: Society & Culture: General