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From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an accidental Americanan 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 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 culturebeginning with their ill-fated plan to name her after the winner of the Miss America pageant.

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My Time Among the Whites

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9781250299437, 978-1250299437
      ISBN10: 1250299438
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an accidental Americanan 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 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 culturebeginning with their ill-fated plan to name her after the winner of the Miss America pageant.

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