From the writer of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on as an ‘accidental’ American?an incisive go through the sides of identity for a female of color within a society devoted to whiteness Within this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capo Crucet explores the health of selecting herself a stranger in the united states where she was born. Elevated in Miami as well as the girl of Cuban refugees, Crucet examines the political and personal about My Period Among the Whites: Records from an Unfinished Education curves of American identity as well as the physical places where those contours find themselves smashed: whether it is a rodeo town in Nebraska, a school campus in upstate NY, or Disney World in Florida. Crucet illuminates how she found see her exclusion from aspects of the theoretical American Desire, despite her family’s tries to squeeze in with white American culture?beginning with their ill-fated intend to name her after the winner from the Miss America pageant. In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Period Among the Whites examines the occasionally hopeful, occasionally deeply flawed ways that many Americans have discovered to adapt, exist, and?in the face of all signals saying otherwise?maybe even thrive within a country that never imagined them here.