The weight of shadows
Jose Orduna · 2016
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Jose Orduna chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities - rooted in the continuity of US imperialism to globalism - form the landscape of Orduna's daily experience, where the geopolitical meets the quotidian. Orduna describes the absurd feeling of being handed a piece of paper, his naturalization certificate, that guarantees something he has always known: he has every right to be here. A trenchant exploration of race, class, and identity, The Weight of Shadows is a searing meditation on the nature of political, linguistic, and cultural borders, and the meaning of "America."
Book details
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN
- 9780807074015
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