Daisy Hernández with Jia Lynn Yang: Citizenship

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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Daisy Hernández with Jia Lynn Yang: Citizenship is an episode from The New York Public Library Podcast by The New York Public Library.

This episode is 57:06 long.

This episode was published on Apr 1, 2026.

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