Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez | Resources

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Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, 3rd edition, Harper & Row, 1988.

Traces the development of Hispanic-American playwrights.

Alvarez, Lizette. "Spanish-English Hybrid Is Spoken with No Apologies" on LatinoLink, http://www.latinolink.com/ life/life97/0324lspa.htm, December 15, 1998.

This website discusses the use of "Spanglish" as well as the employment of alternating English and Spanish in conversations and writing.

Bruce-Novoa, Juan, editor. Retrospace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature, Arte Público, 1990.

Essays on Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Hispanic literatures.

Electric Mercado. El Teatro Campesino, http://www.mer-cado.com/grupos/, December 13, 1998.

A web site devoted to Latino cultural centers, with a number of pages devoted to Valdez's theater company in San Juan Bautista, California.

Elam, Harry J., Jr. Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valzez and Amiri Baraka, University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Traces the development of social protest in...
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