Becoming American in the Age of Trump
How does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
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...moreEmilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
...moreThe babysitters inspired me, and Kristy’s entrepreneurial vision seemed plain yet elegant; easy-to-follow, too.
...moreSergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
...moreElizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
...morePoet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discusses his debut memoir, CHILDREN OF THE LAND.
...more“[P]art of writing is cementing some sort of memory.”
...moreUndergirding all the truth about pain is the triumph that comes from having a heart like a window and a mouth like a cliff.
...moreIf they come for one of us, they will come for us all.
...moreIf you ask me why I did it, I can’t give you a proper answer. I was hungry and didn’t have much money, but it wasn’t like I was homeless or went to sleep starving.
...moreFor Sarah A. Chavez, the body works as a site of difference and violence, but also magic and wisdom.
...moreI’m writing about the border through the eyes of children because the border is a problem of the imagination.
...moreFor many Mexican-Americans, Trump’s campaign is nothing new. It fits within repeating cycles of attraction and rejection for Mexican immigrants in this country and connects with a long history of challenges that citizens of Mexican descent have faced to their place in the society. At the New York Review of Books, Julia Preston discusses the […]
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