Bandido
Subtitle: the death and resurrection of Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
By: Ilan Stavans.
Publisher: Vidas/Northwestern University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Acosta, Oscar Zeta.; Mexican Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Mexican Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Ethnic identity.; West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Hispanic Malcolm X. Writer. Activist. Civil rights attorney. Contemporary of Hunter S. Thompson's. Man prone to excesses. Man of vision. All describe Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. A leading figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, he seemed to be everywhere and have a profound influence on everyone in El Movimiento. In 1974, after a last phone call to his son, Acosta disappeared in the Mexican state of Mazatlan." "Bandido reconstructs - even reinvents - the man behind the myth. Part biographical appraisal, part reflection on the legacy of the civil rights era, Bandido is an opportunity to understand the challenges and pitfalls Latinos face in finding a place of their own in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: New York : IconEditions, c1995. With new epilogue.
Includes index.