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Fifty Years of Chicano Theatre: Mapping the Face(s) of the New American Theatre

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One of the most produced and anthologized actos (brief commedia-like political sketches) collectively created by the Teatro Campesino (Farmworkers Theatre) under Luis Valdez’s direction, is titled Los vendidos (The Sellouts).

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Huerta, J.A. (2018). Fifty Years of Chicano Theatre: Mapping the Face(s) of the New American Theatre. In: Etheridge Woodson, S., Underiner, T. (eds) Theatre, Performance and Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65828-5_15

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