The Hispanic Americans (Multicultural America Vol.1)
Published: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 243
The history of Hispanic Americans is inextricably linked tothecolonization and territorial expansion of contemporary America.Inthe 19th century, Texas, New Mexico, and much ofCalifornia-allgeographic regions with significant Spanish andHispanicpopulations-ceded or were annexed as part of what was tobecome theUnited States. Immigrants from Mexico, Central America,Cuba,Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic have also contributedtothe Hispanic-American community and have thereby complicatedaswell as enriched any single definition of that ethnic group.
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
Elmore Leonard - Cat Chaser George Moran's affair with a beautiful woman leads him into danger when her husband, a mob-connected Dominican cop, discovers what has been happening and sets out to seek revenge on him at all costs.
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