Who is Oscar?
Best known as the popularly as...
the 300- pound Samoan and/or legendary Chicano lawyer and activist
Where did the narrator grow up?
Riverbank, California
Riverbank
Where was Nicholasa born and raised?
United States
America
Born and raised in an urban village in which state?
New York City
When did Sleepy Lagoon and the Zoot Suit Riots occur?
1942 and 1943, respectfully.
Where was Oscar born?
El Paso, Texas
Texas
El Paso
Who is his mother?
Juana
What was the name of her first novel?
Nilda (1973)
Whose culture dominated the United States?
European
Whose novel received the Jane Addams Book Award?
Nicholasa Mohr
Once enlisting in the U.S Air Force where was Oscar stationed?
Panama
spoonful of chile
chile
What did Nicholasa study at New York's Art Student League, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the New School for Social Research and Pratt Institution
Graphic Arts
What did Anglo-Americans demand
to reject their parents' language and way of thinking
clothes and food
Who suffered with drug abuse?
Oscar "Zeta" Accosta
Where was Oscar temporarily jailed?
Juarez, Mexico
Mexico
Juarez
Who helped the narrator no longer feel like a "deformed freak"?
Vernon Knecht
Vernon
Primary artistic expression
writing
What was Mohrs' final thought?
Children deserve to have pride in themselves and their community.
All of go forward.
Take responsibility and run with it.
Let us continue to fight in order to insure our rightful place in society and commit to a positive legacy for all children.
Encouraged by their mother to follow their artistic dreams?
Nicholasa Mohr and passes the message along to young reader
Oscars son brought back two of his publications in 1989, name them both
The Autobiography of The Brown Buffalo
The Revolt of The Cockroach People
What is a V-8?
underpants
briefs
Mohrs most acclaimed work
Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio (1985)
the process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture
Assimilation
Preached at a Baptist Missionary
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta