The weight of shadows
Subtitle: a memoir of immigration and displacement
By: Jose Orduna
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780807074015
Subjects: Social aspects; Civil rights; Immigrants; Social conditions; Hispanic Americans; Mexican Americans; Emigration and immigration; Biography
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Imaginary lines; title: Martin y Yoli; title: Biometrics; title: La soledad de Octavio; title: A civilized man; title: Good moral character; title: Ceremony; title: Friendship Park, USA; title: Passport to the new west; title: Disappearing act; title: Streamline.