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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

byLaila Lalami

Focused on on Belonging in America, Conditional Citizens brings Laila Lalami's biographical portrait to a complex and consequential subject. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and political science. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

208

ISBN

9781524747169