The Revolt of the Cockroach People

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1973). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 258 pp. Original khaki paper-covered boards, stamped in white, in original unclipped ($7.95) dust-jacket. Some light edge wear to jacket - particular to spine ends and tips. Small pencil notations to pastedown edges - presumably from previous book cataloguer. Book shows light toning to page edges - paper stock change, spine ends lightly curled.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“The Revolt of the Cockroach People is a novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta. It tells the story of a Chicano lawyer, "Buffalo Zeta Brown," fictionalizing events from Oscar Acosta's own life, including the East L.A. walkouts at Garfield High School, the founding of the Brown Berets, the Christmas protests at St. Basil's church, the Castro v. Superior Court decision of 1970, Acosta's run for sheriff of Los Angeles County later that year, the Chicano National Moratorium, and the death of Ruben Salazar, who is referred to as "Roland Zanzibar" in the novel. Acosta uses the historical events of the late 1960s and early 1970s "as the context for the construction of a Chicano identity and the realization of a revolutionary class consciousness.”