{"product_id":"citizenship-by-daisy-hernandez","title":"Citizenship by Daisy Hernandez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non-citizens alike. Brilliant!”—Sandra Cisneros\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most comprehensive book on citizenship\/immigration I’ve ever read. A must-read!”—Javier Zamora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book I have always wanted to read.”—Jose Antonio Vargas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Personal, profound, engaging, and comprehensive . . . this is an essential book for these contentious times.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Review of Books, Autostraddle, Publishers Lunch\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this one-of-a-kind book, Daisy Hernández fiercely interrogates one of the most complicated subjects of contemporary life and politics: citizenship. Braiding memoir, history, and cultural criticism, she exposes the truths and lies of how we define ourselves as a country and a people. Turning to her own family’s stories—her mother arrived from Colombia, while her father was a political refugee from Castro’s Cuba—Hernández shows how the very idea of citizenship is a myth, one of the stories we tell ourselves about the American soul and psyche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReframing our understanding of what it means to be an American, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCitizenship\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an urgent and necessary account of the laws, customs, and language we use to include and exclude, especially those who come from Latin America. With her scholar’s mind and memoirist’s gift for narrative, Hernández weaves a story both personal and national, while reckoning with our country’s ongoing debate about who belongs and providing fresh ways of thinking about citizenship. At once bracing, fearless, and tender, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCitizenship\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a powerful portrait of one family’s experiences in the borderlands of citizenship and an honest illumination of the country in which we live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47825611751665,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/9757\/8890\/files\/citi_01bbcd84-f761-4345-abbc-4ccb7309831f.webp?v=1771955895","url":"https:\/\/shopsouthandpine.com\/products\/citizenship-by-daisy-hernandez","provider":"South \u0026 Pine and Blue Apple Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}