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Revolt of the cockroach people / by Oscar Zeta Acosta.-1st Vintage Books ed. p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. eISBN: 978-0-307-83166-8 1. Acosta, Oscar Zeta. 2. Mexican Americans-California-Los Angeles-Biography. 3. Mexican Americans-California-Los Angeles-Ethnic identity. 4.
The Revolt of the Cockroach People is the fascinating story of Chicano lawyer Buffalo Zeta Brown, written by his son, Oscar Zeta Acosta. Brown became involved with the Chicano Militants when he moved to Los Angeles in 1968. He originally went to Los Angeles looking for a story to write. Brown wanted to write a book.
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.
Chapter 8, pgs. 89-104 Summary and Analysis. A week after the firing of the cardinal, the family of Robert Fernandez arrives at the church basement asking for Brown's help. Seventeen-year-old Robert had been killed by the police, according to his family. He had been high on drugs.
The revolt of the cockroach people by Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1973, Straight Arrow Books; distributed by Quick Fox, New York edition, in English
Zeta Brown, the activist Chicano lawyer in Acosta's sequel, The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973).1 Oscar's abrupt departure enacts a double re jection. First, he rejects the liberalism that led him to take on "the enemy our president [Lyndon Johnson] so clearly described in his first State of the Union address" (Autobiography 22).
