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# Daisy Hernández
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/ideas-festival/speakers/daisy-hernandez/
- Published: 2026-03-19T21:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-21T22:55:32.000Z
- Author: Daisy Hernández
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Daisy Hernández is the author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth, which Booklist in a starred review calls “an essential book for these contentious times.” She is also the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. She is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of the feminist anthology Colonize This! She is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University.

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****Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth**

In 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.

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