Luis Valdez's Los Vendidos

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Luis Valdez is one of the playwright writers who has lived through significant eras and uses those opportunities to portrait it to today’s world. Tres Actos is one of his incredible works that consists of 3 plays: “The Militants,” “Vietnam Campesino,” and “Los Vendidos”. This plays cover through times which is the highlight of the U.S. History—The Segregation period, and The Vietnam War. Luis Valdez’s demonstration of Los Vendidos reminds me of the Depression and the New Deal Era, which the Mexicans and Mexican Americans(Chicanos) receive this stereotype discrimination from the Anglos. Los Vendidos talks about how the Anglos treated Mexican and Chicanos as robots that could be bought or sold as they wished in this fictional store, “Honest

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