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A review by jentidders
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet
3.0
Jennine Capó Crucet is a writer, a professor, and the first-generation American daughter of Cuban refugees. In this excellent and thought-provoking essay collection, she takes a critical look at the experience of being Latinx in a world centred on whiteness.
Covering her arrival at Cornell University and what it cost (financially and emotionally) for her family to get her there, a love of Disney World whilst being conscious of the ways in which it is problematic, a stay at a Nebraskan ranch, and her father's emotional disconnection from her family even in ill health, Crucet examines the ways the political and personal intersect, and the impact of the immigrant experience identity.
Covering her arrival at Cornell University and what it cost (financially and emotionally) for her family to get her there, a love of Disney World whilst being conscious of the ways in which it is problematic, a stay at a Nebraskan ranch, and her father's emotional disconnection from her family even in ill health, Crucet examines the ways the political and personal intersect, and the impact of the immigrant experience identity.