| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
198 pages ; 21 cm |
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Occupation/field of activity group: occ Journalists |
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National/regional group: nat Floridians |
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Occupation/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members |
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Gender group: gdr Women |
| Summary |
"From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers comes a collection of essays on feeling like an "accidental" American and the tectonic edges of identity in a society centered on whiteness. What does it mean to find yourself a stranger in the country where you were born? Raised in Miami, the daughter of Cuban refugees whose aspirations for their child began with a plan to name her after a Miss America pageant winner, Jennine Capó Crucet grew up in a nation designed to exclude. In dispatches that range from a rodeo town in Nebraska to the Ivy League and Disney World, the critically acclaimed Latinx writer and first-generation American explores the political and personal contours of her Americanness, as she experiences it, and as it is constructed by others. Wry, candid, and fearless, My Time Among the Whites captures the sometimes hopeful yet deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and-in the face of all signals showing otherwise-even thrive in a country that never imagined them here"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
I: Early Encounters -- What we pack -- ¡Nothing is impossible in America! -- Magic Kingdoms -- II: Various Immersions -- Say I do -- Going cowboy -- Country we now call home -- III: Resistance in action -- Ease of exit -- Imagine me here, or How I became a professor -- A prognosis. |
| Subject |
American essays -- 21st century.
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American essays. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Cuban American women.
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Cuban American women. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Essay.
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essays.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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Essais.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020004313
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| ISBN |
9781250299437 (trade paperback) |
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1250299438 |
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9781250299444 (ebook) |
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