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Lalami, Laila, 1968-
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Lalami, Laila, 1968- -- Political and social views.
Moroccans -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants. -- United States -- Biography.
Citizenship -- United States -- Biography.
American essays -- 21st century.
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Lalami, Laila, 1968-
Lalami, Laila, 1968- -- Political and social views.
Moroccans -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants. -- United States -- Biography.
Citizenship -- United States -- Biography.
American essays -- 21st century.
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Conditional
citizens
: on
belonging
in
America
/ Laila Lalami.
by
Lalami, Laila, 1968-
Pantheon Books, 2020.
Call #:
814.6 L193c
Subjects
Lalami, Laila, 1968- -- Political and social views.
Moroccans -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants. -- United States -- Biography.
Citizenship -- United States -- Biography.
American essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781524747169 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
191 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191).
Summary:
"The acclaimed, award-winning novelist -- author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans -- now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "
conditional
citizens
." 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 the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth, such as national origin, race, or 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, keeping the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy.
Conditional
citizens
, she argues, are all the people whom
America
embraces with one arm, and pushes away with the other. Brilliantly argued and deeply personal,
Conditional
Citizens
weaves together the Lalami's own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture."--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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