Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Contributor(s): Lalami, Laila (Author) |
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ISBN: 1524747165 ISBN-13: 9781524747169 Publisher: Pantheon Books OUR PRICE: $22.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship |
Dewey: 323.609 |
LCCN: 2019037549 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A New York Times Editors' Choice - Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections. Sharp, bracingly clear essays.--Entertainment Weekly Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth--such as national origin, race, and gender--that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. Lalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other. Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami's own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture. |