Luis Valdez’s “Los Vendidos” and ”No Saco Nada de Escuela”

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and the situations faced by the characters in his plays. He was born to a large migrant family on June 26, 1940 in Delano, California; he is one of ten children. His family moved often due to the planting and harvesting schedule. Despite the hard labor and long hours required of a migrant worker, Valdez was able to graduate from high school and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University. After graduating from university in 1964, he joined the San Francisco Mime Group, where he learned about “agitprop” theater. In “agitprop” theater, actors make use of political agitation and propaganda to protest against social injustices. This experience would help him a year later when he joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers Union in their efforts to unionize migrant farmworkers during the Great Delano Grape Strike of 1965.
Valdez believed that the acto was the perfect vehicle to expose the problems experienced by the abused migrant workers. The first ...

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continue to grow.” The split provided Valdez and El Teatro Campesino the time and opportunity to move onto other matters such as Vietnam, racial discrimination and problems in the barrio.
Two actos that emerged from this split were Los Vendidos and No Saco Nada de la Escuela. Both plays deal with the topics of forced cultural assimilation, although in two different ways. In “Los Vendidos” the reader is introduced to Miss Jimenez and Honest Sancho. Miss Jimenez is a secretary for then Californian governor Ronald Regan. She is in search of a Mexican for the governor’s administration. Honest Sancho is a shopkeeper who sells automated Mexicans and is willing to oblige Miss Jimenez’s ...

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