The Revolt of the Cockroach People is a novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta. It tells the story of a Chicano lawyer, "Buffalo Zeta Brown", fictionalizing events...

in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973)...

Pieces of a Chicano Mind (1969), Oscar Zeta Acosta's autobiographies The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973)...

Basil's in The Revolt of the Cockroach People as a "monstrosity with a fantastic organ [that] pumps out a spooky religious hymn to this Christ Child of Golden...

veterano or veterana is an older member of the same subculture. Other terms referring to male members of the subculture may include vato and vato loco...

American youth in the 1940s. Lowrider also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs, which remain a part of Chicano culture...

Retrieved 2016-11-13. Acosta, Oscar Zeta (February 6, 2013). The Revolt of the Cockroach People. Knopf/Doubleday. pp. 184, 194. ISBN 9780307831668. Retrieved...

San Antonio (Texas) during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s. The trend of Latinos started with Latino rock and roll and rock musicians...

The Punjabi Mexican American community, the majority of which is localized to Yuba City, California, is a distinctive ethnicity holding its roots in a...

Salazar is depicted under the name "Roland Zanzibar" in Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1973 novel The Revolt of the Cockroach People. In 1979, Sonoma State University...

for the Chicano revolt as it is a guideline for family life." From the beginning of the Chicano Movement, some Chicanas criticized the idea that machismo...

Roger L. Simon, and the Firesign Theatre. Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1972 The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Oscar Zeta Acosta...

-118.208188 Estrada Courts is a low-income housing project in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, California. It is located on E. Olympic Blvd & S...

leaves. As the novel ends, Esperanza vows that after she leaves, she will return to help the people she has left behind. The novel is composed of 44 interconnected...

interlanguage. It is even the native dialect of some speakers who know little to no Spanish, or have no Mexican heritage. Many people who speak Chicano English...

Because of their long, persistent association with humans, cockroaches are frequently referred to in art, literature, folk tales and theater and film....

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta 1989 Edition. Vintage ISBN 0-679-72213-0 Introduction – Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta...

The Spanish expression la Raza ('the people' or 'the community'; literal translation: 'the race') has historically been used to refer to the mixed-race...

He was born into a poor, migrant farm working family in a community of people that still used ancient words that some found improper and backwards but...

American Indians are American citizens who culturally identify with the Indigenous peoples of Mexico. Indigenous Mexican-Americans usually speak an Indigenous...

relevant to the Mexican and Chicano people living in the United States and Mexico. Chicano rap is mainly enjoyed by hip hop listeners in the United States...

variation of regional Mexican music known as norteño). It reached a much larger audience in the late 20th century thanks to the explosive popularity of the singer...

[ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlán", from which was derived the word Aztec...

those of the Tex-Mex variety. Not only has this made Americanized Mexican food more widely available to Americans, but also to people around the world...

fact that these bikes originated within the poverty of the barrio, lowrider bikes can be expensive. Some of the bikes are not rideable and exist only for...

describes how indigenous people who were conquered by the Spanish created their own "in between" culture. They would leave behind aspects of their culture that...

referring to people of Mexican descent in the United States. The ⟨-x⟩ suffix replaces the ⟨-o/-a⟩ ending of Chicano and Chicana that are typical of grammatical...

children, although not technically citizens of the United States or Texas, are people "in any ordinary sense of the term" and, therefore, are afforded Fourteenth...

Victor Villaseñor (Rain of Gold) Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Revolt of the Cockroach People) Cecilia Vega American journalist, currently serving as chief White...

University of Arizona Press. Cummings, Laura L. (2003). "Cloth-Wrapped People, Trouble, and Power: Pachuco Culture in the Greater Southwest". Journal of the Southwest...