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El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement
Born in 1965 as an organizing tool within Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union, El Teatro Campesino became the premier Chicana/o performance ensemble to emerge out of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This pioneering work demythologizes and reinterprets the company's history from its origins in California's farm labor struggles to its successes in Europe and...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
January 1st 1994
by University of Texas Press
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Interesting history of the use of theater during the farm workers' strikes in California in the 1960s-70s. They used skits as a social justice movement and a way to educate and organize the farm workers.
Enlightening history/critique of ETC.
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