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My Time Among the Whites

Notes from an Unfinished Education

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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 América Latina Américas Ciencias Sociales Demografía Específica Estudios Latinoamericanos Ingenioso Sueño Florida

Editorial Review

From race and relationships to high school and academia, Jennine Capo Crucet pulls the curtain on her experience as a Cuban-American. Torn between two cultures, she discovers her identity in this compelling collection of essays.
Jennine Capo Crucet is a writer and professor who works in the English and Ethnic Studies departments at the University of Nebraska. She graduated from Cornell University and has gone on to win an O. Henry Award, Iowa Short Fiction Prize, and John Gardner Book Award. She has also contributed to The New York Times, where she voices her opinions on writing, modern life, and her experience as a Cuban-American.
In her audiobook narration of My Time Among the Whites, Jennine Capo Crucet treats listeners to an open and honest narrative about her life. From her formative years spent in a working-class neighborhood in Miami to growing up to become a first-generation college student, Crucet opens up about her cross-cultural upbringing and her consequent struggles with identity.
In this collection of essays, Crucet’s down-to-earth approach to writing shines through. She tackles her fair share of loaded topics, such as institutionalized racism and people of color changing their behavior or appearance for the approval of white people. But she also touches on lighter topics, from her complicated love of Disneyworld to wedding planning.
This fascinating listen will particularly resonate with Latinx immigrants and anyone who grew up in Miami, Florida. Jennine Capo Crucet dismantles the idea of “The American Dream” in the context of white American culture and the ever-present issue of white privilege. —Audible Latino Editor.

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"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.

Empowering

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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.

Excellent reading experience

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

Voice of What Needs to be Unpacked

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

Look forward to the next one

Familiar and inspiring

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Thank you for sharing your story, it resonated with me in ways I didn’t expect it to.

Story-telling

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

All the claps for Capo Crucet!

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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.

Well written, but atypical leftist pandering

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

racist

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