Maria Hinojosa. (2020). Once I Was You: A Memoir. Atria Books.

Maria Hinojosa. 2020. Once I Was You: A Memoir. Atria Books.

Maria Hinojosa, Once I Was You: A Memoir. Atria Books, 2020.

Maria Hinojosa. Once I Was You: A Memoir. Atria Books, 2020.

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   • bioText: Maria Hinojosa's nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, the longest running national Latinx news program in the country, distributed by PRX. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC, and has won several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award. Her seven-part podcast series Suave won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2022. She has also been inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit newsroom and production company with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding coanchor of the political podcast In the Thick, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. She lives with her family in Harlem in New York City.
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NPR's Best Books of 2020
BookPage's Best Books of 2020
Real Simple's Best Books of 2020
Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020

"Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story." —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road

The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR's Latino USA tells the story of immigration in America through her family's experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis in this memoir that is "quite simply beautiful, written in Maria Hinojosa's honest, passionate voice" (BookPage).
Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who, for nearly thirty years, has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media—from tales of hope in the South Bronx to the unseen victims of the War on Terror and the first detention camps in the US. Bestselling author Julia Álvarez has called her "one of the most important, respected, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx community."

In Once I Was You, Maria 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.

An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all, this honest and heartrending memoir paints a vivid portrait of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a feminist, a citizen, and a journalist who owns her voice while striving for the truth.

Also available in Spanish as Una vez fui tú.

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     Starred review from June 8, 2020
     Veteran broadcast journalist Hinojosa discusses immigration in a defiant memoir that probes family lore, public policy, and mainstream media bias. In 1962, when Hinojosa was a baby, her family emigrated from Mexico to Chicago when her father was invited to join the faculty at the University of Chicago, but an immigration agent, misinterpreting her minor skin rash as a disease, tried to separate her from her family. Annual visits to Mexico maintained her dual Mexican-American identity, but reentry to the U.S. was dependent on a green card and emphasized how “people were and are still looking at us—immigrants—as aliens.” As a student at Barnard College, she hosted a Latin radio show and earned an internship at NPR. Hired by “the one other Latino at the network,” she helped launch Weekend Edition Saturday. In 1986, while covering the Texas sesquicentennial, she visited Harlingen, “the first immigrant detention camp I ever saw” and the nation’s largest. Horrific conditions spurred her ongoing investigations which continue today. She discusses the history of immigration under presidents Clinton (while “Bill Clinton was being celebrated for eating burritos and enchiladas, the new president was also cracking down on immigration”) and Obama (“In 2014, under President Barack Obama, ‘removals’ clocked in at 414,481”), details the passage of immigration legislation, and highlights the high cost of detention (“$3 billion for the 2018 fiscal year”). The result is a powerful memoir that doubles as an essential immigration primer.

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     Starred review from June 1, 2020
     Award-winning journalist Hinojosa, host of Latino USA on NPR, is known for covering overlooked and marginalized communities. She has now written a formidable memoir sparked by a chance encounter. When Hinojosa spies a little girl alone in an airport, she is transported back to her own scary arrival in the early 1960s as a child from Mexico; she tells the ni�a, Once I was you. From this emotional beginning, Hinojosa narrates her turbulent life story as a marginalized woman with allegiance to two countries. She lays out her personal and professional struggles and successes within a well-researched historical context, while also providing behind-the-scenes accounts of her groundbreaking and often traumatic work on 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and the creation of the Frontline report on the miseries of immigration detention camps, titled Lost in Detention. As far-ranging and politically illuminating as Hinojosa's memoir becomes, it is also laser-focused and intimate, and at its heart are portrayals of immigrants, especially immigrant children. Although the situations of those children are dire and hope seems unrealistic, Hinojosa promises to keep telling their stories. A fascinating and essential journalist's memoir.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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     Hinojosa's (Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son) latest is illuminating reading in many respects. Mexico-born, the author came to the United States with her family in the early 1960s as an infant. Here, she covers her early life growing up with her family in Chicago, and details her college experiences to explain how she became a reporter. Most important, her book focuses on the experiences of immigrants in America; Hinojosa's efforts as a reporter of these stories and struggles are also examined closely. She explains how to tell a story in a way that touches viewers but also the effect on her own life, as she discusses facing down media executives, who saw her work on Latino issues as having an "agenda." Hinojosa describes the documentaries on immigration she has produced and gives a thorough history of the past 30 years of immigration laws and their impact on people coming to this country. Seeing the world through Hinojosa's eyes, readers travel to the Texas for-profit prisons now housing immigrants who were cited for, in many cases, minor offenses, and those awaiting deportation to countries they left as infants. VERDICT This riveting account will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of immigration and current U.S. policies.--Amy Lewontin, Northeastern Univ. Lib., Boston

     Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     The making of an activist journalist. Acclaimed Mexican-born journalist Hinojosa, whose many awards include four Emmys and a Peabody, reflects candidly on her identity as a Latina, feminist, and political activist as well as a wife, mother, and prominent reporter, documentarian, and producer. Unlike many Latinx immigrants who come to the U.S. to escape oppression, Hinojosa arrived in 1962 as a 1-year-old when her father was recruited for a position as a research scientist at the University of Chicago. Growing up in the "multicultural oasis" of Hyde Park, she was unaware of the "otherwise intensely racially segregated city." Hinojosa went from the elite University of Chicago Laboratory School to Barnard, where she hosted a weekly three-hour Latinx show at the college's radio station. An internship at NPR's All Things Considered followed, which in turn led to a job as a production assistant on Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, a new NPR venture. Hinojosa's career is nothing less than impressive: She has worked at CNN, PBS, and CBS; founded and anchored Latino USA on NPR; founded the nonprofit Futuro Media; and created In the Thick, a national political podcast focusing on journalists and experts of color. If her life sounds charmed, though, Hinojosa is frank about the insecurities, panic attacks, PTSD, and depression she has suffered as well as the challenges she faced in a field dominated by White men. "I have never met a Latina, Ivy Leaguer, radio producer, international traveler who loves theater, speaks two languages, and is so politically aware!" exclaimed one NPR news executive. She struggled, too, to define her perspective as a journalist, which increasingly focused on the plight of immigrants. In 1986, she saw her first immigrant detention camp and came away shocked. She movingly bears witness to the dehumanizing, degrading treatment of immigrants; everyone, she urges, must take action "to make us all feel connected and visible." Forthright, important testimony from an impassioned reporter.

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"Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story." —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road

The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR's Latino USA tells the story of immigration in America through her family's experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis in this memoir that is "quite simply beautiful, written in Maria Hinojosa's honest, passionate voice" (BookPage).
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