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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
by Oscar Zeta Acosta

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Author: Oscar Zeta Acosta
Introduction: Hunter S. Thompson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-07-17
ISBN: 0679722130
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: A counter culture Chicano's struggle to find his identity.
Summary: 4 Stars

Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is a journey through the most desperate six months of his life which happen to be right in the middle of the psychadelic "drop-out" sixties. This is the story of a man whose pain is made real, whose roots are in question, and whose society seems fragmented.

We travel with him from town to town from San Francisco to Mexico in all sorts of environments. In each town he is confronted by another contact zone filled with racism, surrealism and rootlessness.

Acosta is brutally honest with himself. He calls himself the Brown Buffalo. Him and his people, killed not out of necessity but for excess. Their skins became coats and their heads were mounted on walls. They were a people used, abused and driven from their lands. Acosta ends his book where his life actually begins as Zeta, a leader to the Chicano people, the Brown Buffalos.

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