Description: A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles Times
In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an 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, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Conditional Citizens : on Belonging in America
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Women, Civil Rights, Civics & Citizenship
Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 7.4 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Laila Lalami
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
