Show Notes
In this episode of Library Talks, Author Daisy Hernández explores one of the most contested questions in contemporary American life: who belongs. Hernández is joined in discussion with journalist Jia Lynn Yang.
Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth braids memoir, history, and cultural criticism to reveal how citizenship functions less as a guarantee than as a narrative we tell about ourselves as a nation. Drawing on her own family's stories—a mother from Colombia and a father who fled Castro's Cuba—Hernández's narrative is both national and personal, and it challenges us to reframe our understanding of what it means to be an American.
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