This week, the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/04/01/nx-s1-5732437/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump" class="default">Supreme Court heard arguments </a>on the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order that would undo birthright citizenship. That long-established legal principle was enshrined in the 14th Amendment. In part, it says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens." In her new book, professor and writer Daisy Hernandez says that legal definition is just one layer of a complicated idea. Citizenship is really about who gets to belong. “We are citizens of the stories we tell,” she writes. “We belong to the stories we scribe about democracy and authoritarianism, about borders and neighbors, about love and grief and one another.” Hernandez joins host Kerri Miller on this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas for a remarkably relevant discussion about her book, “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738467/citizenship-by-daisy-hernandez/" class="default">Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth</a>.” She uses her own family’s immigration story as a starting point to examine how class, race, sexism and nationalism all impact who gets to claim U.S. citizenship. She and Miller also talk about how citizenship has evolved over the course of American history, often becoming a proxy for race. Guest: <ul><li><a href="https://www.daisyhernandez.com/" class="default">Daisy Hernandez</a> is a writer and a professor at Northwestern University. Her new book is “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738467/citizenship-by-daisy-hernandez/" class="default">Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth</a>.” Her previous books include “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825374/the-kissing-bug-by-daisy-hernandez/9781953534194/" class="default">The Kissing Bug</a>” and a memoir, “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/237684/a-cup-of-water-under-my-bed-by-daisy-hernandez/" class="default">A Cup of Water Under My Bed</a>.” </li></ul> <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/newsletters" class="apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link apm-link default">Subscribe to the Thread newsletter </a>for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations. 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