Bandido - The Death and Resurrection of Oscar "Zeta" Acosta

An exploration of the troubled odyssey of a major figure in the Civil Rights era

About the author

ILAN STAVANS is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include the best-selling The Hispanic Condition (1995) and On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (2001). In 2000 Routledge published The Essential Ilan Stavans. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages.

Summary

El Paso-born activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta became a leading figure in the Chicano rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, winning landmark civil rights cases as an attorney. Through interviews and Acosta's writings, this biography reassesses the man and the era.

Product details

• Authors: Ilan Stavans
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2003
• EAN: 9780810120280
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2028-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 191 g
• Series: Latino Voices; Latino Voices S; Latino Voices
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education