02801cam a2200313 4500 574334110 TxAuBib 20220507120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593170342 0593170342 9b696ff1-6895-4dfd-8886-106e18c198cd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4848076 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lalami, Laila. Conditional Citizens [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 159MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 159MB. Biography & Autobiography. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:A New York Times Editors' Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times 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 American rights, liberties, and protections. "Sharp, bracingly clear essays."—Entertainment Weekly 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.   Lalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.   Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4848076-ConditionalCitizens.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9b696ff1-6895-4dfd-8886-106e18c198cd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4848076-ConditionalCitizens.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9b696ff1-6895-4dfd-8886-106e18c198cd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)