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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lalami, Laila, 1968- author.     Subjects     Citizenship -- United States.     Naturalization -- United States.     Discrimination -- United States.     United States -- Emigration and immigration.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lalami, Laila, 1968- author.       by title:      Conditional citizens...         MARC Display

Conditional citizens : on belonging in America / Laila Lalami. by Lalami, Laila, 1968- author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2020] Subjects Citizenship -- United States.   Naturalization -- United States.   Discrimination -- United States.   United States -- Emigration and immigration. ISBN:  9781524747169 (hardcover) : 1524747165 (hardcover) : Description:  191 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Allegiance -- Faith -- Borders -- Assimilation -- Tribe -- Caste -- Inheritance -- Do not despair of this country. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 323.60973 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.60973 Lalami Checked In Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.60973 LALAMI Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.60973 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.60973 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.60973 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.60973 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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