"We were and still are recreating our own reality. Our vision is that we have been a hard working, courageous people. There have been three prevalent images of the chicano in this country— 1) the pachuco, a violent, urban vato loco; 2) the farmworker, a passive peon, Don Juan-Yaqui brujo type; and 3) el Spanish grandee or Latin lover type."
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On what he aimed to portray in his early works in “An Interview with Luis Valdez” in LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW (Spring 1982)
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