HUERTA: In the early years, the Teatro Campesino exposed and explored farmworkers' reality, as opposed to the experiences of urban Chicanas and Chicanos, as
Zoot Suit did.
EL Teatro's living legacy: after 50 years Luis Valdez's company retains both its Chicano identity and its broader mission. Next: the return of the troupe's most famous creation, Zoot Suit
Despite this oversight, From Coveralls to
Zoot Suits highlights how the war industries did more than simply make planes, tanks, and bombs, but also reshaped American culture and sub-cultures during the war years.
Elizabeth R. Escobedo. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
"
Zoot Suit Riot" will be the jam-packed second half of the performance, with 13 Daddies' songs on the playlist.
SWING HIGH
Honing in on one corner of this "hyphen nation" and one moment in its history, From Coveralls to
Zoot Suits explores the myriad ways in which World War II transformed "women of Mexican descent" in Los Angeles into Mexican Americans.
From Mexicans to Americans
Zoot Suit is a must read for anyone interested in the convergence point of American personal identity, popular culture, race relations, and politics.
Are you what you wear? The politics of fashion
Chapter one reviews the role of the Pachuca women in several major events in Latino culture--the
Zoot Suit Riots and the Sleepy Lagoon incident, both in the 1940s, and both watershed moments in Mexican-American history.
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
Second, Alvarez convincingly connects the
Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles with similarly violent outbreaks in cities across the U.S.
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II
From "all gussied up" to "
zoot suit", each entry offers plain, no-nonsense information about the history and usage of each phrase (or the best known theories of the phrase's origin).
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
The
zoot suit, generating the connotations of slang, swing, leisure, dysfunction, and urbanism because of its visibility in night clubs, and through jazz musicians, and riots, also constituted, like gangster movies, bracero youths' response to white paranoia and white projection of bracero youths as deviants.
Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick: Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction
We recognize that today's LAPD is a far cry from the one that turned its ''Red Squad'' against liberals in the early decades of the 20th century, that allowed soldiers to beat young Latino men in the 1940s during the so-called
Zoot Suit Riots, that spied on political opponents through the 1960s and 1970s -- including such fringe figures as the mayor.
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Classic Theatre, in the mayhem of the
Zoot Suit riots, Romeo is once again falling for Juliet: two star-crossed Los Angeles youths worried about Mexican immigration.
On stage and off: a portrait of Tony Plana
Beatings, whippings, canings, lynchings, labor riots at River Rouge, race riots in Tulsa,
zoot suit riots in East L.A--the soundtrack of the American movie isn't exactly played on a harp.
America the ornery: Peter Wood thinks we luxuriate in our anger. You got a problem with that?
On June 9 and 10, 1943, in the midst of the
Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles newspapers announced the arrest of a "pachuco woman." According to the press, twenty-two-year-old Amelia Venegas, mother of a toddler and wife of a sailor, had incited violence by urging a gang of pachucos to attack sheriff's deputies in her East Los Angeles neighborhood.
Saying "nothin'": pachucas and the languages of resistance
Terms such as sad sack, jitterbug, gizmo (Dad was in the Navy), Eisenhower jacket and
zoot suit, and bobbysoxer are familiar to me, even though I was born in the 1950s.
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