My Time Among the Whites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Time Among the Whites write by Jennine Capó Crucet. This book was released on 2019-09-03. My Time Among the Whites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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. 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.
Make Your Home Among Strangers
Make Your Home Among Strangers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Make Your Home Among Strangers write by Jennine Capó Crucet. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Make Your Home Among Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young, Cuban-American woman is accepted into an elite college right as her home life unravels.
How to Leave Hialeah
How to Leave Hialeah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Leave Hialeah write by Jennine Capó Crucet. This book was released on 2009-09. How to Leave Hialeah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Capó Crucet’s striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for Washington, D.C., and what James Joyce did for Dublin: they expand our ideas and our expectations of the city by exposing its tough but vulnerable underbelly. Crucet’s writing has been shaped by the people and landscapes of South Florida and by the stories of Cuba told by her parents and abuelos. Her own stories are informed by her experiences as a Cuban American woman living within and without her community, ready to leave and ready to return, “ready to mourn everything.” Coming to us from the predominantly Hispanic working-class neighborhoods of Hialeah, the voices of this steamy section of Miami shout out to us from rowdy all-night funerals and kitchens full of plátanos and croquetas and lechón ribs, from domino tables and cigar factories, glitter-purple Buicks and handed-down Mom Rides, private homes of santeras and fights on front lawns. Calling to us from crowded expressways and canals underneath abandoned overpasses shading a city’s secrets, these voices are the heart of Miami, and in this award-winning collection Jennine Capó Crucet makes them sing.
White Fragility
White Fragility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Fragility write by Dr. Robin DiAngelo. This book was released on 2018-06-26. White Fragility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
The Whites
The Whites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Whites write by Harry Brandt. This book was released on 2015-02-17. The Whites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A slashing in Penn Station draws a Manhattan detective back into a case from the past that haunts him.
