Daisy Hernández — Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
Journalist and author delivers a personal examination of citizenship and belonging in a country renegotiating who counts as American.
Why we picked this
This conversation is happening at the right moment — Hernández is asking the hardest questions about citizenship precisely when those questions have become impossible to avoid.
Daisy Hernández has spent her career at the intersection of personal narrative and political analysis, and Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth brings that combination to one of the most contested ideas in American life. The book is a reckoning with what citizenship actually is — legally, emotionally, historically — versus what Americans have been told it means.
The conversation will be moderated by Lupita Aquino and is co-presented with FreeDC, which gives the evening an activist edge alongside its literary one. Expect a discussion that’s as much about the present moment as it is about the book.
This is the kind of talk that’s difficult to have on television or social media — too nuanced, too personal, too willing to sit with complexity. Politics and Prose is the right room for it.