num_pages: 198
description: In this sharp and candid collection of essays first-generation American Jennine Cap 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 familys attempts to fit in with white American culturebeginning 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 andin the face of all signals saying otherwiseperhaps even thrive in a country that never imagined them here.
language: English
title: My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
publisher: Picador