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i finished severance, it was eerily relatable since the pandemic and also because of some of my personal experiences……. it was also SO much to digest & so heavy while simultaneously being fast paced and gripping. its a commentary on consumerism and on capitalism on work on race on immigration on the human condition……… amazing.

OMG YOU FINISHED ALREADY its so so so so goodddgfhbggfhfjfhfgdgdfd GOD. you UNDERSTAND. can you believe that was ling ma's debut novel

#IMAGINE LEADING WITH SUCH A BIG WIN LIKE💥💥💥💥💥💥💥#she wrote it in 2018 iirc? so this was pre-pandemic just. really eerily reminiscent dhfhfgdfdfddd #HER DEBUT NOVEL god. her use of prose & symbolism makes me abnormal #if you like short stories i can recommend her new novel 'bliss montage'!#if you want another book thats more focuses on commentary and real world issues you can also check out:#Jennine Capó Crucet's 'Make Your Home Among Strangers'#also if your into horror i can recommend Valancourt's World Horror Stories (all volumes)! they freak me the fuck out and they translate #stories from absolutely everywhere from authors experienced and new :)#i sshoild just make a book rec section when i work on my neocities.TBH #daisy.txt #moot tag #beast/minky

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vivian-bell · 2 years

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But we all know the history, and I’m sure my vote was never counted. I’m sure it sits–even now, probably in that state’s capital–in some vault, the envelopes unopened, the paper moldy and dank like the Ariel artifacts my mother kept, at the bottom of some bag filled with ballots like mine. I wish I’d known as I sat there hovering over that radiator-warmed bunch card–having waited until the postmark deadline to commit a decision to it; the little pin that I’d detached from the instructions, which mandated I use only that tool to puncture the spot that proved where my loyalties lay, slipping in my sweaty hand–how pointless it would be. I wish I’d known that no one would ever see it or count it. I wish I’d known, as I pushed through one choice over the other, how little it mattered which side I ended up betraying, how much it would hurt either way.

Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet

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lillianbreaker · 3 years

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Favorite books of 2020

New Releases:

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty

Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Luster by Raven Leilani

Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

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Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob

Passing by Nella Larsen

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi

Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

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loudlytransparenttrash · 4 years

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According to a recent study on 475 higher education institutions, the top subject matter of books assigned to college students over last summer was racism and slavery, the second most assigned book subject matter was crime and police, and the third was immigration, all race-saturated subjects.

The five most frequently assigned book readings: Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, a memoir that argues that America’s criminal justice system is fundamentally corrupted by racism and urges its readers to join “social justice organizations.” Jennine Capó Crucet’s Make Your Home Among Strangers encourages students to think of themselves in terms of ethnic identity groups. Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks propagandizes for universal government-provided healthcare. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me preaches disturbing hatred of whites. Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give is a Black Lives Matter young adult novel.

This is the intellectual atmosphere for young Americans at a time our country is the least racist and most inclusive it has ever been. Psychological research indicates focusing on differences among Americans, instead of a focus on what unites us, pushes people towards intolerance. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt and psychology professor Lee Jussim wrote in the WSJ, “As far as we can tell, the existing research literature suggests that such reforms - diversity training and classes on race - will fail to achieve their stated aims of reducing discrimination. In fact, we think that they are likely to damage race relations and to make campus life more uncomfortable for everyone.”

Out of 502 books selected for 2018–2019 common readings, 73 percent were published between 2011 and 2018 and 88 percent have been published between 2001 and 2019. 58 percent of the assigned books’ topics were also related to minority groups. This could be a result of the recent protests by college students, demanding their school bans all white male authors.

Reed College students demanded the school’s Humanities 110 course not include any work by white or European authors. Students at the University of Notre Dame called for the removal of white authors from the curriculum to “decolonize” the university. Undergraduates at Yale University called on the English Department to abolish a course requirement to study writers including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, saying that it is unacceptable that a student studying English literature might read only white male authors. Students at Williams College launched a boycott of the entire English Department, claiming the curriculum is “whitewashed.” University of Pennsylvania’s English Department removed an iconic portrait of William Shakespeare, replacing it with a portrait of a black, feminist lesbian, “in order to represent a more diverse range of writers.” Professors from Rutgers University and University of Waterloo also believe that we must stop citing academic research by white male authors.

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Georgia college students started burning books because someone called them white

Latina author Jennine Capó Crucet recently spoke to students at Georgia Southern University about her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, about an Hispanic girl who feels out of place at a predominantly white college. According to the student newspaper The George-anne, the conversation was quickly derailed by angry college students who think it's racist to point out when things are racist:

"I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged," one respondent said into the microphone. "What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught. I don’t understand what the purpose of this was."

For the record, Georgia Southern University has about a 6 percent Hispanic population.

After the event, several students called the author out even more explicitly on Twitter (although those tweets have been deleted, The George-Anne still has the screenshots). Then they gathered together outside of a dormitory and did what awful mobs throughout history have always done: they burned books.

College kids do dumb stuff sometimes. That's fine; it's part of learning. And it's easy to get carried away. People tend to pay more attention to the manufactured "free speech crisis" when it involves liberal students railing against Milo Yiannopoulos and his literal Nazi propaganda. But these things happen at Christian and Conservative schools, too (and often without the same dark money deliberately financing the provocation, at least as far as I'm aware). While I'd argue that there's a difference between de-platforming and straight-up censorship, neither one is necessarily unique to a particular political perspective.

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stacyalesi · 3 years

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MY TIME AMONG THE WHITES by Jennine Capó Crucet

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adotaxolotl · 5 years

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Book burning at Georgia State University

Georgia state university is a primarily white school. When Jennine Capó Crucet went there to speak about her new novel, she wasn’t quite welcomed with open arms. Her book, Make Your Home Among Strangers, is about her life as a Cuban-American woman in a primarily white college. During the question and answer section after the talk, a student made a crude remark, essentially asking why she was even there. She responded, saying that this comment showed white supremacy in and of itself. Later, students intentionally disrespected Crucet by filming a video of themselves burning her book.

The article also showed a tweet that stated “white people need to realize that they are the problem and their privilege is toxic.” While I agree that there are certain white people that are toxic to a society in which everyone is accepted, it I say major generalization to assume all caucasian people are like that. As someone who identifies as white, I am absolutely appalled that any student would disrespect anyone that way. That book was Crucet’s life story, and these students completely disregarded it.

I’m sure there was a majority of students at Georgia State university who were just as appalled as me regarding this. Unfortunately, this incident consisting of a handful of students has diminished the college’s reputation. I could never imagine anything like this happening at new trier. I would be concerned for the safety of myself and other students if this were to happen here. In my opinion, this article did an ok job of discussing how important it is to have a welcoming society to all races, although I disagree with the generalization made about all white people.

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harothar · 7 years

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So I am not yet done reading Jennine Capó Crucet's "Make Your Home Among Strangers," but I have already drawn fanart of the main character. It's a pretty phenomenal book so far, though not for those who are currently under a great deal of stress. The main character is a first generation student at a pretty prestigious college, and has to struggle going from being a big fish in a very small pond, to one of the few people of color attending an expensive school miles from home. Family drama, social activism (from the main character's mother, not the main character, which is definitely new), racism, immigration issues, coming of age, this book is the whole package. 10/10 give it a read but again, the first... 9(?) or so chapters are pretty heckin' stressful so don't start it if you are also stressed or prone to intense secondhand emotions.

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First Draft Episode #246: Edan Lepucki

Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California and Woman No. 17. Edan’s latest project is Mothers Before, a collection of essays and photographs based on the popular Instagram Mothers Before, which Edan created. She is also the co-host, with fellow writer Amelia Morris, of the podcast Mom Rage.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will, Await Your Reply, and You Remind Me of Me, was an influential teacher in Edan’s young writing life

A breakthrough moment for Edan was drafting a story that mimicked the structure used by Cary Holladay in “Merry-Go-Sorry,” a short story published in Alaska Quarterly Review (read an excerpt of the story, based on the West Memphis 3, here). Cary is also the author of Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella and The Quick-Change Artist: Stories.

Edan worked at Book Soup, a local bookstore in Los Angeles, Calif.

For 45 years, until her recent retirement, Connie Brothers shaped the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, including by calling every accepted writer personally to welcome them to the program.

As a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Edan is in a position to correct the depiction of the esteemed writing program in HBO’s Girls

Frank Conroy, director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, died halfway through Edan’s time at the program. He was replaced by Lan Samantha Chang, who has been credited with a shift in the program’s makeup and away from a once-toxic environment.

Raymond Carver, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral, and Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel, and Tenth of December: Stories

Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America: Stories and Self-Help and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Mary Gaitskill, This Is Pleasure: A Story, Bad Behavior: Stories, and Because They Wanted To

Edan founded Writing Workshop L.A. after coming home from Iowa

Leslie Parry, author of Church of Marvels, was a classmate of Edan’s at Iowa and one of the earliest authors to help teach at Writing Workshop L.A.

Chris Daley was another early writing instructor who now serves as director of Writing Workshop L.A.

The UCross Residency program in Wyoming

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Edan’s appearance on The Colbert Report

The New York Times profile about Edan’s debut experience with California, written by Brooks Barnes

Appearing on Fresh Air with Terry Gross is one of Edan’s life goals

Aimee Bender, author of Willful Creatures, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories

Edan’s agent, Erin Hosier

“Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them,” a piece Edan wrote for the New York Times that went viral

Writers who contributed to Mothers Before include: Brit Bennett (author of The Mothers: A Novel); Jennine Capó Crucet (author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and My Time Among the Whites: Notes From an Unfinished Education); Jennifer Egan (author of A Visit From the Goon Squad and Manhattan Beach: A Novel); Angela Garbes (author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through The Science and Culture of Pregnancy); Annabeth Gish; Alison Roman (author of Nothing Fancy: Unfancy Food For Having People Over); Lisa See (author of The Island of Sea Women: A Novel and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan); Danzy Senna (author of Caucasia: A Novel, and New People); Dana Spiotta (author of Eat the Document: A Novel and Stone Arabia: A Novel); and Jia Tolentino (author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion).

Annie Dillard, author of The Writing Life, as well as Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun and Better than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits—To Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier LIfe

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In response to Jennine Capó Crucet’s talk on campus Wednesday, where she focused her discussion on white privilege, students torched her novel “Make Your Home Among Strangers." https://wapo.st/31c7kMC

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A Latina novelist spoke about white privilege. Students burned her book in response.

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The white students gathered around the fire, speculating why parts of the book were not already engulfed in flames. “It’s a hard cover!” shouts one male student in a video amid laughs as ripped-out pages burn, torn from a novel written by a Hispanic author who had suggested white people are treated differently in society. That angered some students at Georgia Southern University. In response to Jennine Capó Crucet’s talk on the Statesboro, Ga., campus Wednesday, where she focused her discussion on white privilege, students gathered at a grill and torched her novel “Make Your Home Among Strangers” — about…

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On Wednesday night, students at Georgia Southern University (GSU) ripped and burned copies of a Latina author’s book about a woman of color navigating life at a predominately white university. The burning happened after Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and a professor at the University of Nebraska, spoke at the university about the book and her personal experiences. Make Your Home Among Strangers follows a young Cuban woman who has to balance the needs of her family with being a minority at a predominately white elite university.

Crucet’s book was assigned to incoming freshman at GSU who each go through a “first-year experience” course, and the university had invited her to speak about it at their campus. Several students who spoke with BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity said attending the discussion was mandatory. GSU did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for clarification.

After reading from the book and sharing some personal anecdotes, Crucet took questions from the audience. She received a contentious question from a student who took issue with her opinions on white privilege.

“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” the student asked, according to GSU student newspaper The George-Anne. “What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught. I don’t understand what the purpose of this was.”

Crucet described the question as “hostile,” and students began shouting at each other in the auditorium, she said in a public statement. After the Q&A, she said many students came forward to apologized to her. She added that they described relating to the protagonist in her novel, a young Latina attending a predominately white university.

The university decided to relocate Crucet to a different hotel outside of town after a crowd began to form outside her original lodging. Photos and videos of her book being burned also began to appear on social media, including by many who tagged Crucet in tweets. (Some of these messages have since been deleted.)

so after our FYE book’s author came to my school to talk about it… these people decide to burn her book because “it’s bad and that race is bad to talk about”. white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic. author is a woman of color. pic.twitter.com/HiX4lGT7Ci

— elaina⭐️ (@elainaaan) October 10, 2019

“To think of those students watching as a group of their peers burned that story — effectively erasing them on the campus they are expected to think of as a safe space — feels devastating,” Crucet wrote in her statement. A spokesperson for Crucet did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

“The book began as an act of love and an attempt at deeper understanding,” Crucet said. “I hope that GSU can act from the same place and work to affirm the humanity of those students who might understandably feel unsafe in the aftermath of the event and book burning, and that the campus continues the difficult and necessary conversation that began in that auditorium.”

BuzzFeed also reported that the students will not face disciplinary actions. “While it’s within the students’ First Amendment rights, book burning does not align with Georgia Southern’s values nor does it encourage the civil discourse and debate of ideas,” said John Lester, Vice President for Strategic Communications and Marketing in an emailed statement to the The George-Anne.

GSU’s Department of Writing and Linguistics condemned the book burning in a Thursday statement signed by the department chair. “We assert that destructive and threatening acts do not reflect the values of Georgia Southern University,” the statement says.

Students at @GeorgiaSouthern literally burning my novel. This is where we are, America. https://t.co/CxhjuaBYcX

— Jennine Capó Crucet (@crucet) October 10, 2019

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phooll123 · 5 years

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New top story from Time: ‘Devastating.’ Latina Professor and University Officials Respond to Students Burning Book About White Privilege

On Wednesday night, students at Georgia Southern University (GSU) ripped and burned copies of a Latina author’s book about a woman of color navigating life at a predominately white university. The burning happened after Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and a professor at the University of Nebraska, spoke at the university about the book and her personal experiences. Make Your Home Among Strangers follows a young Cuban woman who has to balance the needs of her family with being a minority at a predominately white elite university.

Crucet’s book was assigned to incoming freshman at GSU who each go through a “first-year experience” course, and the university had invited her to speak about it at their campus. Several students who spoke with BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity said attending the discussion was mandatory. GSU did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for clarification.

After reading from the book and sharing some personal anecdotes, Crucet took questions from the audience. She received a contentious question from a student who took issue with her opinions on white privilege.

“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” the student asked, according to GSU student newspaper The George-Anne. “What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught. I don’t understand what the purpose of this was.”

Crucet described the question as “hostile,” and students began shouting at each other in the auditorium, she said in a public statement. After the Q&A, she said many students came forward to apologized to her. She added that they described relating to the protagonist in her novel, a young Latina attending a predominately white university.

The university decided to relocate Crucet to a different hotel outside of town after a crowd began to form outside her original lodging. Photos and videos of her book being burned also began to appear on social media, including by many who tagged Crucet in tweets. (Some of these messages have since been deleted.)

so after our FYE book’s author came to my school to talk about it… these people decide to burn her book because “it’s bad and that race is bad to talk about”. white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic. author is a woman of color. pic.twitter.com/HiX4lGT7Ci

— elaina⭐️ (@elainaaan) October 10, 2019

“To think of those students watching as a group of their peers burned that story — effectively erasing them on the campus they are expected to think of as a safe space — feels devastating,” Crucet wrote in her statement. A spokesperson for Crucet did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

“The book began as an act of love and an attempt at deeper understanding,” Crucet said. “I hope that GSU can act from the same place and work to affirm the humanity of those students who might understandably feel unsafe in the aftermath of the event and book burning, and that the campus continues the difficult and necessary conversation that began in that auditorium.”

BuzzFeed also reported that the students will not face disciplinary actions. “While it’s within the students’ First Amendment rights, book burning does not align with Georgia Southern’s values nor does it encourage the civil discourse and debate of ideas,” said John Lester, Vice President for Strategic Communications and Marketing in an emailed statement to the The George-Anne.

GSU’s Department of Writing and Linguistics condemned the book burning in a Thursday statement signed by the department chair. “We assert that destructive and threatening acts do not reflect the values of Georgia Southern University,” the statement says.

Students at @GeorgiaSouthern literally burning my novel. This is where we are, America. https://t.co/CxhjuaBYcX

— Jennine Capó Crucet (@crucet) October 10, 2019

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October 11, 2019 at 09:12PM

On Wednesday night, students at Georgia Southern University (GSU) ripped and burned copies of a Latina author’s book about a woman of color navigating life at a predominately white university. The burning happened after Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and a professor at the University of Nebraska, spoke at the university about the book and her personal experiences. Make Your Home Among Strangers follows a young Cuban woman who has to balance the needs of her family with being a minority at a predominately white elite university.

Crucet’s book was assigned to incoming freshman at GSU who each go through a “first-year experience” course, and the university had invited her to speak about it at their campus. Several students who spoke with BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity said attending the discussion was mandatory. GSU did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for clarification.

After reading from the book and sharing some personal anecdotes, Crucet took questions from the audience. She received a contentious question from a student who took issue with her opinions on white privilege.

“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” the student asked, according to GSU student newspaper The George-Anne. “What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught. I don’t understand what the purpose of this was.”

Crucet described the question as “hostile,” and students began shouting at each other in the auditorium, she said in a public statement. After the Q&A, she said many students came forward to apologized to her. She added that they described relating to the protagonist in her novel, a young Latina attending a predominately white university.

The university decided to relocate Crucet to a different hotel outside of town after a crowd began to form outside her original lodging. Photos and videos of her book being burned also began to appear on social media, including by many who tagged Crucet in tweets. (Some of these messages have since been deleted.)

so after our FYE book’s author came to my school to talk about it… these people decide to burn her book because “it’s bad and that race is bad to talk about”. white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic. author is a woman of color. pic.twitter.com/HiX4lGT7Ci

— elaina⭐️ (@elainaaan) October 10, 2019

“To think of those students watching as a group of their peers burned that story — effectively erasing them on the campus they are expected to think of as a safe space — feels devastating,” Crucet wrote in her statement. A spokesperson for Crucet did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment.

“The book began as an act of love and an attempt at deeper understanding,” Crucet said. “I hope that GSU can act from the same place and work to affirm the humanity of those students who might understandably feel unsafe in the aftermath of the event and book burning, and that the campus continues the difficult and necessary conversation that began in that auditorium.”

BuzzFeed also reported that the students will not face disciplinary actions. “While it’s within the students’ First Amendment rights, book burning does not align with Georgia Southern’s values nor does it encourage the civil discourse and debate of ideas,” said John Lester, Vice President for Strategic Communications and Marketing in an emailed statement to the The George-Anne.

GSU’s Department of Writing and Linguistics condemned the book burning in a Thursday statement signed by the department chair. “We assert that destructive and threatening acts do not reflect the values of Georgia Southern University,” the statement says.

Students at @GeorgiaSouthern literally burning my novel. This is where we are, America. https://t.co/CxhjuaBYcX

— Jennine Capó Crucet (@crucet) October 10, 2019

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Georgia Southern students burn UNL professor's novel following campus discussion about race

Georgia Southern students burn UNL professor’s novel following campus discussion about race

Jennine Capó Crucet’s award-winning novel “Make Your Home Among Strangers” follows a young Cuban-American woman from Miami as she tries to navigate life inside a predominately white, prestigious New York university.

The author and University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor was invited to discuss the book that explores race and privilege before a convocation of students at Georgia…

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