{"product_id":"9781518502965","title":"Oscar ''Zeta'' Acosta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOscar “Zeta” Acosta: The Uncollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters poets and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer. All of these works were written between the early 1960s and shortly before his mysterious disappearance in Mazatalán, Mexico, in 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these writings Acosta reveals a variety of personae: a leader troubled by issues of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural identity; a man who saw himself as a Robin Hood of Mexican Americans; an unstable yet genial wanderer who joined Hunter S. Thompson in a search for the American Dream. Acosta realized that democracy is about speaking out, about feeling uncomfortable, about defining others and oneself through the prism of race and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of \u003ci\u003eOscar “Zeta” Acosta: The Uncollected Works,\u003c\/i\u003e the complete picture of a crucial player in the Chicano Movement—described by others as “our Thomas Aquinas” and by himself as “the Brown Buffalo”—finally emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arte Publico Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165221110000,"sku":"9781518502965","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781518502965_p0.jpg?v=1763728771","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781518502965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}