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Acosta, Oscar Zeta. "Perla is a Pig." Con Safos 2:7 (1971) 34-46.  

Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo.

          1972 NewYork: Vintage House 1989.

Acosta , Oscar Zeta. The Revolt of The Cockroach People.  

1973NewYork: Vintage House 1989.

Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Uncollected Works. Ed. Ilan Stavans.    

Houston: Arte Publico Press 1996.  

Acuña, Rodolpho. “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.”
         1972. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.

 

Alurista. "Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach People: The Case,
          the Novel and History." Contemporary Chicano Fiction: A  

          Critical Survey. Ed. Vernon E. Lattin. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual

P/Editorial Bilingüe, (1986) 94-104.

Boelhower, William. “Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in

American Literature.” New York: Oxford UP, 1987.

Bruce-Novoa, Juan. “Retrospace: Collected Essays on Chicano

Literature.” Houston: Arte Publico P, 1990. 

“Dr. Gonzo's Carnival: The Testimonial Satires of Oscar Zeta

Acosta.” American Literature 72:3 (2000) 463-494.

Hernandez, Jaime. “The Death of Speedy.” Seattle: Fantagraphic

Books, 1989. 

Huerta, Alberto. “Punto Final! Pachuco, Too.” The Hispanic

Outlook in Higher Education. 11:6 (2000) 80.

Lee, Robert A. “Chicanismo's Beat Outrider? The Texts and

Context of Oscar Zeta Acosta.” Beat Generation in

Literature 27:1 (2000) 158-159.

Mazón, Mauricio. “The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of

Symbolic Annihilation”. Austin: University of Texas, 1984. 

Montoya, José. "El Louie." Aztlan: An Anthology of Mexican

American Literature. Eds. Luis Valdez and Stan Steiner.
New York: Random House, 1972. 333-37. 

Paredes, Raymund A. "Los Angeles from the Barrio: Oscar Zeta

Acosta's The Revolt of the Cockroach People." Los Angeles in Fiction: A Collection of Original Essays. Ed. David Fine. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1984. 209-22. 

Paz, Octavio. “The Labyrinth of Solitude.” 1961. Trans. Lysander

Kemp. New York: Grove P, 1985. 

Ramirez, Arthur. "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, The

Revolt of the Cockroach People: A Review." Revista
Chicano-Requeña (1975): 47-48. 

Saldivar, Ramon. Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference.

Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1990. 

Smethurst, James. “The figure of the vato loco and the

representation of ethnicity in the narratives of Oscar Z.
Acosta.” MELUS. 20:0 (1995) 119-132.

Sollors, Werner. “Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in

American Culture.” New York: Oxford UP, 1986.