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Loading... My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Educationby Jennine Capó Crucet
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I knew I needed to read this book when I learned that students at a university had burned this book after she spoke there. It speaks directly to the white privilege that people in this country take advantage of every day while refusing to acknowledge it. ( ) Thoughts from a Cuban-American author on her alienation from predominantly white spaces. Her essays on her experiences in academia were compelling (both from her POV as a first gen immigrant student and later as a Latinx professor), but I didn’t fully click on many of her other essays. Some nice insights peppered throughout but I didn’t care for the Disney or wedding hall content. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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 No library descriptions found. |
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