A review by nadiamsahi
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet

5.0

This is a very funny book, which doesn't detract from the deeply personal topics which are discussed, or the true weight of living while non-white in today's United States. Crucet interrogates her place in a number of settings (with her family, on a ranch, at a prestigious University) in order to discuss white privilege, passing, immigration, marriage as unrelated to love, and underneath it all the variation in traditions and customs and truths which distinguish us from each other. Her writing is eloquent but still accessible. I felt a sense of kinship with Crucet, and admire the fact that she's written a book that situates herself within her community, for her community.