citizenship Archives

Essays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

American Tests

by Jakki Kerubo May 7, 2020October 19, 2022

In her quest to become truly American, Jakki Kerubo discovers what it means to belong in a place.

Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Story, Travel

Notes on Citizenship

by Nina Coomes April 17, 2019October 19, 2022

Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.

Books, Nonfiction, Story

Not Quite Not White

by Longreads August 28, 2018October 19, 2022

Sharmila Sen grew up understanding distinctions between castes and religions, between the educated and the illiterate. Race was a distinction she didn’t understand until she came to America.

Current Events, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

A New Citizen Leaves a Lost America

by Aaron Gilbreath August 20, 2018October 19, 2022

Journalist Rebecca Mead explains why she first left England for the United States, and why she’s now moving back to a country that isn’t necessarily home.

Amy Tan on Writing and the Secrets of Her Past

by Sari Botton October 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Nicole Chung interviews novelist Amy Tan about her parents’ secrets, whether her late father might have voted for Donald Trump, and her new memoir, Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir.