Jennine Capó Crucet’s My Time Among the Whites is full of exchanges, that lay bare the ways power and money and race and class work in America in a way that’s serious but that can also be bitingly funny,” Anna North, Vox. Capó Crucet shares her American experiences growing up in Hialeah, Florida, her years as a student at the Ivy League Cornell University, her thoughts on Disney World and her new life as an associate professor (Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan was recorded at Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida.

Host: Mitchell Kaplan

Producer: Carmen Lopez

Editor: Lit Hub Radio

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