LA Literature - Helpful Links (Valdez)

Helpful Sites

Book Links

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?0679722122
This site offers a brief description of the book.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/
This site contains brief reviews of the book.

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0679722122-0
This site offers book comments right from the publisher.

http://www.gonzo.org/hst/oscar/roachcov.html
This site offers a look at the old book cover and includes a brief description.

http://pixelsensei.com/cgi-bin/Lak3rGrL34/archives/week_2002_11_24.html
This site offers a review and summary from a college student’s perspective.

http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/acosta_scpn.html
This site contains donated material by the Acosta family after his disappearance.

http://www.downtownbrown.com/cgi-bin/psb455/10760.html?id=7nLMpACZ
This site contains the book summary.

http://www.downtownbrown.com
This site offers information for those who are interested in purchasing the old copy.

Author Links

http://www.gonzo.org/hst/oscar/
This site offers insight on Oscar Zeta Acosta by friend Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo journalist.

http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/oscar_zeta_acosta.html
This site offers biographical information of Oscar Zeta Acosta.

www.sscnet.ucla.edu/csrc/webwriters.html
This site offers insight on Oscar Zeta Acosta.

www.faccc.org/SERVICES/books/reviews/acosta.htm
This site contains information into the life of Oscar Zeta Acosta written by Alicia Dienst, former FACCC legislative aide.

www.beniciodeltoro.com/media/1998/latimes.htm
This site helps to better understand why Oscar Zeta Acosta was the inspiration for Hunter S. Thompson's hell-raising movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This review was written by Yvette C. Doss, L.A. Times reporter.

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/Fear_and_Loathing.htm
This site also gives more insight on why Oscar Zeta Acosta was the inspiration for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Historical Links

http://hometown.aol.com/msedano/spirits.htm
This site offers a close look at the early Los Angeles movement.

http://www.geocities.com/mexicano_resistance
This site contains rich history relating back 500 years of Mexican and Chicano resistance.

http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/chihist.html
This site offers rich information of The Chicano Movement in history written by Octavio I. Romano, Ph.D.

http://mediafilter.org/MFF/USDCO.C-PR.html
This site offers insight into the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements.

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~amerstu/smc/chicano.html
This site offers other valuable sites into Latin movements in the US brought to us by UCLA professors and students in the field of study.

http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/chicano/chicano.html
This site offers great insight into the great Chicano Civil Rights Movement.

http://www.injust-spring.com/chicana.html
This site offers insight into the Chicano Movement through the eyes of a Chicana woman.

http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa623.htm
This site gives a brief explanation of the Chicano Movement as well as art that sprung from this. The site also provides related links to Chicano art.

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~hepg/HER-BookRev/Articles.html
This site gives a great view of the struggle between Chicanos and the educational system, written by Rubén Donato.