Hunting season : immigration and murder in an all-American town / Mirta Ojito.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2013]Description: xii, 252 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0807001813 (cloth)
- 9780807001813 (cloth)
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- Patchogue -- Case studies
- Latin Americans -- New York (State) -- Patchogue -- Case studies
- Murder -- New York (State) -- Patchogue -- Case studies
- Racism -- New York (State) -- Patchogue -- Case studies
- Patchogue (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Case studies
- Patchogue (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
" Ojito has done truth an invaluable service. Extraordinary."--Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2014 International Latino Awards Finalist
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uncovers the true story of an immigrant's murder that turned a quaint village on the Long Island shore into ground zero in the war on immigration
In November 2008, 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero, an unassuming worker at a dry cleaner's and an undocumented Ecuadorean immigrant, was attacked and murdered by a group of teenagers as he walked the streets of the Long Island village of Patchogue accompanied by a childhood friend. The attackers were out "hunting for beaners." Some of the kids later confessed that chasing, harassing, and assaulting defenseless "beaners"--their slur for Latinos--was part of their weekly entertainment. In recent years, Latinos have become the target of hate crimes as the nation wrestles with swelling numbers of undocumented immigrants. Public figures fan the flames and advance their careers by spewing anti-immigration rhetoric.
In death, Lucero became a symbol of everything that was wrong with our broken immigration system: fewer opportunities to obtain travel visas to the United States, porous borders, a growing dependency on cheap labor, and the rise of bigotry.
Drawing on firsthand interviews and on-the-ground reporting, journalist Mirta Ojito has crafted an unflinching portrait of one community struggling to reconcile the hate and fear underlying the idyllic veneer of their all-American town. With a strong commitment to telling all sides of the story, Ojito unravels the engrossing narrative with objectivity and insight, providing an invaluable look at one of America's most pressing issues.
"Reminds us how we might think of each other and how we treat all of our neighbors, whether or not they look like us. This is our human story."-- Wes Moore , author of The Other Wes Moore
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-252).
A bloody knife -- Painted birds in the air -- Welcome to Patchogue -- Not in my backyard -- Beaner jumping -- Unwanted -- A murder in the suburbs -- A torn community -- A little piece of Heaven -- Trial and punishment.
Documents the true story of a Long Island immigrant's murder in 2008, citing the hate biases that compelled a group of teens to attack the Ecuadorean victim, who became a symbol of flaws in America's immigration system.