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My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
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About My Time Among The Whites: Notes From An Unfinished
Product 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 whitenessIn this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó 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. Review “My Time Among the Whites lay[s] bare the ways power and money and race and class work in America in a way that’s serious but that can also be bitingly funny.” ―Anna North, Vox “Remarkable.... an interrogation of the American Dream, of American myths, and the whiteness that undergirds it all. My Time Among the Whites is also a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be a first-generation college student, a child of immigrants, and a professor to boot....An exploration of what it means to be Latinx in the time of Trump." ―Renee Hudson, Los Angeles Review of Books“An excellent primer on privilege and power, and the ways in which one can be both marginalized by whiteness and benefitted by it. This is a must-read for all white Latinx, and everyone else in the U.S., too.” ―Christine Arreola, Bustle “Thoughtful, deftly crafted reflections on race and identity.” ―Kirkus Review“Crucet interrogates identity, assimilation, and success through the eyes of an outsider.... My Time Among The Whites explores what it means to come of age and live in a country designed to exclude you.”―A.V. Club“Crucet’s well-written essays are entertaining and accessible, without letting readers or the author herself off the hook for reflecting on and addressing cultural issues. Strongly recommended for all readers.”―Library Journal (starred review)“As Jennine Capó Crucet makes clear in her provocative collection of essays, whether you are or are not white isn't the point―it's everything. If you are white, the culture that absorbs you so easily may well be taken for granted. In this country you've known little else. If you're not white, it's the depth and breadth of that white culture that either pushes you to the side or inspires you to push back. For Crucet, there's no question about which way to go, and in her exquisitely fierce way, she does.”―Bookpage“Lucid and unfeigned...Crucet's essays are hopeful, though grounded in the recognition that the social systems in place will not shift anytime soon. Sympathetic and encouraging, Crucet's observations and experiences offer a path toward learning how we can become less foreign to each other.”―Booklist “Aside from being smart and fearless when it comes to writing about her experience (or lack thereof) of the so-called American Dream, Jennine Capó Crucet is also… funny. Of course, a sense of humor is a necessary survival mechanism when navigating America’s hypocritical self-mythologizing, as you quickly discover that laudatory boot-strap immigrant narratives are generally reserved for the lily white Irish ancestor. Capó Crucet’s essays of her Cuban-American experience―as it occurs across the country, from Disney World to Nebraska―assert n
