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010			_a 2019037549
020			_a9781524747169 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781524747176 _q(ebk)
038			_aAzhar
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
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050	0	0	_aJK1759 _b.L223 2020
082	0	0	_a323.60973 _223 _bLAL
100	1		_aLalami, Laila, _d1968- _eauthor. _993763
245	1	0	_aConditional citizens : _bon belonging in America / _cLaila Lalami.
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c2020
263			_a2005
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
563			_aHB
650		0	_aCitizenship _zUnited States. _993764
650		0	_aNaturalization _zUnited States. _993765
650		0	_aDiscrimination _zUnited States. _993766
651		0	_aUnited States _xEmigration and immigration. _993767
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aLalami, Laila, _tConditional citizens _dNew York : Pantheon Books, 2020. _z9781524747176 _w(DLC) 2019037550
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