Inspired by the fact that my Russian great-grandfather gained his US citizenship after serving in the US Army and my Lithuanian (or Austrian, or Russian, or Latvian - depending on who is telling the story) great-grandmother entered the US on fake passport, I am recording conversations about how family stories are passed down from generation to generation and what it means to be American in the contexts of multiculturalism, immigration, military service, black lives matter, white privilege, and indigeneity.
In episode nine* of season two, Claudia J. Hernández Romero tells Michele Jaquis about her childhood experience of her father's death and the subseque...
In episode eight* of season two, Maria Laura Hendrix shares stories of her childhood growing up first in Mexico and then on a citrus ranch in Ventura ...
In episode seven* of season two, Maria Elena speaks of her assumed indigenous ancestry and shares stories of her life after immigrating to the US from...
In episode six* of season two, two participants of the Reciprocity Los Angeles Artists Retreat discuss their family immigration stories, their Polish ...
In episode five* of season two, Sarah Mostov and Jenny Yurshansky discuss their shared experiences of being children of Jewish refugees and how that s...
In episode four* of season two, Rotem Rozental, who originally came to the US from Israel to work on her PhD and now has two children born here, talks...
In episode three* of season two, Kayla Tange compares her experiences living in the United States and visiting the country of her birth, as a Korean-b...
In episode two* of season two of We Are All Americans, Hugo Claudin, an artist, curator and organizer originally from Guadalajara, Mexico who has live...
We Are all Americans is back with Season two. In episode one* Jada Amina, a self proclaimed “Black-South-Side-Chicagoan,” talks about the messiness of...
In episode twelve* of We Are All Americans, Chloe Brun, who was born in Paris to French and Iranian parents and raised in the United States, talks abo...