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A review by hopecatena
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
This book is a powerful one. Capo Crucet examines how she sees white privilege working throughout different aspects of her life. I ran across this book when trying to find a book for a book challenge and I highly recommend that people (especially white people and white people in education) read this book.
Because I listened to this book, I did not know that it was a series of essays. Since I didn't know this, the book felt disjoined and all over the place, but now that I know, I realize that it's my fault and not the authors. The first essay is about her experiences as a first gen student, from not understanding how orientation worked to crying to her mom on the phone because she couldn't understand the assignment. This is really a tell all on what it is like to go to college as a first gen student. This essay stuck out as the most potent one to me, maybe because it was so different from my own college experience and I needed to examine that. It might have also been because I work in an adjacent field to education and I need to do more work on helping kids prepare for college. Her other essays include pieces on marriage and Wedding receptions, her dad and his illnesses, Disney, and her experiences as a college professor and speaker.
This is a short book, but it is an important book about the Cuban American experience and the feelings after moving away from your community. This is a book that belongs on every anti-racism booklist and every person who calls themselves an anti-racist should read this.
Because I listened to this book, I did not know that it was a series of essays. Since I didn't know this, the book felt disjoined and all over the place, but now that I know, I realize that it's my fault and not the authors. The first essay is about her experiences as a first gen student, from not understanding how orientation worked to crying to her mom on the phone because she couldn't understand the assignment. This is really a tell all on what it is like to go to college as a first gen student. This essay stuck out as the most potent one to me, maybe because it was so different from my own college experience and I needed to examine that. It might have also been because I work in an adjacent field to education and I need to do more work on helping kids prepare for college. Her other essays include pieces on marriage and Wedding receptions, her dad and his illnesses, Disney, and her experiences as a college professor and speaker.
This is a short book, but it is an important book about the Cuban American experience and the feelings after moving away from your community. This is a book that belongs on every anti-racism booklist and every person who calls themselves an anti-racist should read this.