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

3.0

For me, this book was incredibly just ok. It was a pretty quick read and I do think the author did a good job of making the content easy to understand and digestible, but in doing so I almost feel like they didn’t say as much as the title would lead on. There was nothing necessarily groundbreaking about it, but I’m guessing that wasn’t the purpose. 

I think this could be a really good book for Latinos that are coming into their identities and beginning to question the ways colonialism and white supremacy shows up in their lives and in their familial upbringing, so if that’s what you’re looking for, this would be a great first book. Similarly, if you are a white person and are also trying to understand the ways colonialism and white privilege have impacted and continue to impact marginalized people, then this could be a good first book for you.

One thing I did appreciate that the author talked about was Cubans that settled specifically in Miami and how the people she interacted with, including her family and herself, essentially believed they were white in that space and the lasting negative impacts of single voter groups.