{"product_id":"hunting-season-9780807061220","title":"Hunting Season","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eOjito has done truth an invaluable service. Extraordinary.”—Junot Díaz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e 2014 International Latino Awards Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.”—\u003cb\u003eWes Moore\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other Wes Moore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58198216999299,"sku":"9780807061220","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780807061220.jpg?v=1780860412","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/hunting-season-9780807061220","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}