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Bookmark or Share- Oscar Zeta Acosta: biography, bibliography, links - popsubcultureAcosta is most well known as the author of two of the most important novels of the Chicano Protest Movement, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). Both novels are highly acclaimed as major contributions to the Chicano literary renaissance.
- Oscar Zeta Acosta - WikipediaOscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (/ ə ˈ k ɒ s t ə /; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), [3] and was friends with American author Hunter S ...
- Iconic Hispanic Angelenos in History: Oscar Zeta AcostaFamously depicted as Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Oscar Zeta Acosta was a lawyer, activist and writer who played an important role in the Chicano Movement in East L.A.
- Oscar Zeta Acosta and the Los Angeles Chicano civil rights movementWriter of two groundbreaking autobiographical novels, Acosta's powerful literary voice, brash courtroom style and notorious revolutionary antics made him a revered figure within the Chicano Movement, and offered one of the most brazen, frontal assaults on white supremacy seen at the time.
- How 'brown buffalo' Oscar Acosta, best known asAcosta, who liked to refer to himself as a “Brown Buffalo” — in a nod to the “fat brown shaggy snorting American animal, slaughtered almost to extinction” — is now the subject of a new documentary set to air on PBS Friday night. Director Phillip Rodriguez brings Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's life to the small screen in the documentary
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