My Time Among the Whites

Notes from an Unfinished Education

De: Jennine Capo Crucet

Narrado por: Jennine Capo Crucet

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 Capo 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.

©2019 Jennine Capo Crucet (P)2019 Recorded Books

Familiar and inspiring

Very real and true experience that like she says some of us says... "That's happened to me"

Look forward to the next one

Empowering

"This place never imagined you here, and your exclusion was a fundamental premise in its initial design." So empowering. All 1st generation students need to read this.

Excellent reading experience

I loved this book! I purchased it after reading her other book Make your Home among Strangers. Both books were entertaining and informative. I highly recommend reading work by this author. I purchased her first book after reading that some students burned the book after she did a reading and talk at a university. This cued me that the author must have important information for all of us to understand about privilege. I was not disappointed. I look forward to reading more from this great writer.

Voice of What Needs to be Unpacked

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. She uses a clear and honest narrative to unpack the complexities of being Latinx in the US.

All the claps for Capo Crucet!

Every Miami native MUST read this book. She delves into race, relationships, living with trauma. It’s a real gem.

Well written, but atypical leftist pandering

The narration wasn't bad, and the writing wasn't bad, but it's a very atypical far-left liberal pandering story that you would expect from someone in academia who built their career off playing the oppressed victim.

racist

I could have taken her more seriously had it not been a Trump bashing. Give me a break!