Los Vendidos Case

Los Vendidos proves theatre is a powerful weapon that manipulates the society to end racism and stereotype. Luis Valdez wrote this play to emphasize the Latino typecasts and its impact over the community. Los Vendidos narrates several Mexican characters for symbolizing the stereotypes and prejudices against their race.

According to Glass Visage, Los Vendidos mainly focusing on how society treats Mexican people in various instances and how such prejudices affect Latinos. Vargas Zaragosa thinks each Mexican character has unique identity that indicates the label cast of Mexicans. However, in deep down they are same type casted Latinos, who doesn't like the presence of Mexican masters and their English speaking. The role of farm workers narrates the horrible life situations like grease emitting pores in hands, same bored diet, bias actions from secretary etc. The revolucionario model was an exact replica of activist who likes romantic life and horse riding as in movies. The Mexican American was educated. Though, he also shows the stereotypical characteristics of Latinos in the end.

The dominating character of secretary shows the unreasonable refusals towards the traits and skills of Latinos since she is just judging them through the skin colour or English speaking capability. Secretary needs people with certain characteristics like sophisticated and hard-working mentality, American-made traits, etc. However, through a very short investigation she came into conclusion that those Latinos are not up to par. Vargas Zaragosa describes how the ridiculous traits of such model highlight the injustice in typecast.

The final message of Los Vendidos is by revolucionario, and he says robot Sancho is the best model we got! It is a significant message in cynicism, which indicates the tiredness of Mexican people from stereotyping. They realize that it is time to react, otherwise the same typecasts and prejudices will remain unchanged.