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A review by danadays
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
A lot of very cool thoughts and insight! I super enjoyed hearing about her experiences living in Miami and how moving elsewhere made her more aware of her identity. Being surrounded by other Cubans, her perspective of herself and her community was different than when she moved to Nevada later in her life. Studying, teaching, and speaking about race as her job and the interactions that came from those were very interesting to listen to. Also being Cuban and light-skinned, her experience passing as white in certain scenarios and her thoughts from that were very insightful.
I think the organization and flow could have been refined just a bit more, but still very good! :) It is clear Jennine has reflected greatly on her life and is able to eloquently describe and pinpoint specific dynamics. This brings the blurry image of weird interactions in a white society to focus and enables readers to see these situations in their own life.
As someone in the Asian-American community, which may generally have more privilege than other communities, I related greatly to certain aspects of Jennine's Cuban experience with her immigrant parents, assimilation vs pride, and coming to recognize your privilege. I think this book would help a lot of people recognize certain patterns of the white, patriarchal cycles of our society and hopefully take action.
I think the organization and flow could have been refined just a bit more, but still very good! :) It is clear Jennine has reflected greatly on her life and is able to eloquently describe and pinpoint specific dynamics. This brings the blurry image of weird interactions in a white society to focus and enables readers to see these situations in their own life.
As someone in the Asian-American community, which may generally have more privilege than other communities, I related greatly to certain aspects of Jennine's Cuban experience with her immigrant parents, assimilation vs pride, and coming to recognize your privilege. I think this book would help a lot of people recognize certain patterns of the white, patriarchal cycles of our society and hopefully take action.