The Resource Conditional citizens : on belonging in America, Laila Lalami
Conditional citizens : on belonging in America, Laila Lalami
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The item Conditional citizens : on belonging in America, Laila Lalami represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- 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. Throughout the book, she 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 author's own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524747169
- Label
- Conditional citizens : on belonging in America
- Title
- Conditional citizens
- Title remainder
- on belonging in America
- Statement of responsibility
- Laila Lalami
- Language
- eng
- 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. Throughout the book, she 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 author's own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lalami, Laila
- Dewey number
- 323.60973
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- JK1759
- LC item number
- .L223 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Citizenship
- Naturalization
- Discrimination
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Conditional citizens : on belonging in America, Laila Lalami
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524747169
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2019037549
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- 125247745
- Label
- Conditional citizens : on belonging in America, Laila Lalami
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 191 pages
- Isbn
- 9781524747169
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2019037549
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- 125247745
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