“Where Am I at Home?”

Daniel Joseph Martínez is an American artist. Born in 1957 in Lennox, California, a multiracial, working-class town in Los Angeles County, his U.S. citizenship legally establishes him as an American. That his first language is English and that his family has lived in the United States for several generations should establish him culturally as an American as well. The unequal, colonized status of peoples of color within the United States, however, throws his cultural identification into question, following an old American custom of distinguishing “nationality” from citizenship.