Oscar Zeta Acosta ; introduction by Hunter S. Thompson ; afterword by Marco Acosta.
First Vintage Books edition.
New York :
Vintage Books,
1989.
262 pages :
illustrations ;
21 cm
Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco : Straight Arrow Books, 1973.
In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.
Acosta, Oscar Zeta.
Acosta, Oscar Zeta.
Mexican Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- Politics and government.
Mexican Americans-- California-- Los Angeles, Biography.