1/7 What does it mean to be a citizen? That’s the question at the heart of the conversation between @ezraklein and @joseiswriting on this week's episode of The Ezra Klein Show.https://art19.com/shows/the-ezra-klein-show/episodes/7d2085cf-46b5-4d9f-968a-772e1c4ceeb2 …
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2/7 In 2011, Vargas "came out" as an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times article, explaining the challenges and fears that followed him for 25 years.
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3/7 Vargas’s new memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, describes how “unsettled” and “unmoored” he and other undocumented immigrants feel in the country they call home.https://amzn.to/2QAHGw7
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4/7 At the end of the podcast, Vargas recommends three books, two of them fiction, about the experiences of marginalized communities in the United States.
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#1: James Baldwin's essay, ‘The Fire Next Time’, was a galvanizing force during the civil rights movement. The question it poses now, says Vargas, is in banding together, “What can [the #MeToo
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#2: `There There’, the debut novel by Tommy Orange, follows several Native Americans whose lives converge at the Big Oakland Powwow. Vargas says it's important because "it's so rare now that we actually talk about contemporary Native American life." https://amzn.to/2yrnuFD 2 replies 2 retweets 4 likesShow this thread
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#3: ‘America is not the Heart’ is a novel about the Filipino immigrant experience. Vargas (who is also Filipino) points out that the title is a play on Carlos Bulosan's 'America is in the Heart', which is quoted in the epigraph to ‘Dear America’. https://amzn.to/2y9IK34
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