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citizenship

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Becoming American in the Age of Trump

  • Ofelia Montelongo
  • December 13, 2021
How does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha

  • Violet Haeun Kim
  • September 3, 2020
Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.
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Exceptional Pain and Power: Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • January 17, 2020
See how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
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Rice Cake Love

  • Breann Wong
  • December 5, 2019
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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Constellations of Identity: A Conversation with J. Michael Martinez

  • Alex Dueben
  • December 5, 2018
J. Michael Martinez discusses his third collection of poetry, MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems that Shaped America (Pt. 3): “Prospective Immigrants Please Note”

  • David Biespiel
  • October 11, 2016
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chaitali Sen

  • Swati Khurana
  • January 17, 2016
Swati Khurana talks to the author of The Pathless Sky, a love story centered around place, the state’s authority, statelessness, and geology.
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The Rumpus Interview with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

  • Megha Majumdar
  • December 11, 2015
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on her new book The Cosmopolites, the citizenship market, nearly getting deported in the Comoros, and learning to show up and wait.
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I’ll Fly Away: Notes on Economy Class Citizenship

  • Donald Quist
  • September 23, 2015
I want to break from a continued and systematic white supremacy so pervasive it is entrenched in the vernacular I use to express myself.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Reading Don Quijote with My Mother

  • Judy Bolton-Fasman
  • June 6, 2015
“That’s the anthem I would have sung at my original graduation if the university had stayed open,” my mother said.
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Boaters

  • Randa Jarrar
  • April 22, 2013
For the longest time, I intensely disliked the word naturalized. It made me feel as if my family’s very existence was unnatural, and would only change once they became citizens.
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