Covering Up the Present in a Ghost Forest
At the core of identity in the United States is forgetting. The process of assimilation tells immigrants that the path of least resistance is to smooth their differences into imperial classifications. “Like an invisible disease, assimilation is at its best when it is undetectable,” writes Anne Anlin Cheng in her recent memoir Ordinary Disasters: How […]
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