Award-winning author Daisy Hernández joins co-hosts Jennifer Maritza McCauley and Whitney Terrell to talk about her new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. Hernández explains the history of the term “citizenship” and the damaging power it holds over a wide range of marginalized identities. She reflects on how educators can galvanize change around these issues in the classroom, as well as her own family’s relationship with immigration. Hernández reads from Citizenship.

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Daisy Hernandez

• Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
• The Kissing Bug
• A Cup of Water Under My Bed
• Colonize This! (2002)
• Colonize This! (2019)
• Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Others

• Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• James Baldwin Essays
• The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of AI by Petra Molnar, foreword by E. Tendayi Achiume
• Americans in Waiting by Hiroshi Motomura
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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