In Once I Was You, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today. Enjoy the original and an adaptation for young audiences both signed by the author.

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In Once I Was You, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today. Enjoy the original and an adaptation for young audiences both signed by the author.

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