My time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education /
Crucet, Jennine Capó,
My time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education / Jennine Capó Crucet. - First edition. - 198 pages ; 21 cm
I. Early Encounters -- What we pack -- Nothing is impossible in America -- Magic Kingdoms -- II. Various Immersions -- Say I do -- Going cowboy -- The country we now call home -- III. Resistance in action -- Ease of exit -- Imagine me here, or How I became a professor -- A prognosis.
"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."--Amazon.com
9781250299437 1250299438
2019943796
American essays--21st century.
Cuban American women.
Essays.
My time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education / Jennine Capó Crucet. - First edition. - 198 pages ; 21 cm
I. Early Encounters -- What we pack -- Nothing is impossible in America -- Magic Kingdoms -- II. Various Immersions -- Say I do -- Going cowboy -- The country we now call home -- III. Resistance in action -- Ease of exit -- Imagine me here, or How I became a professor -- A prognosis.
"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."--Amazon.com
9781250299437 1250299438
2019943796
American essays--21st century.
Cuban American women.
Essays.