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When Wearing a Suit Could Get You Beaten to Death
In 1943 Los Angeles, fashion became a crime. Young Mexican Americans in “zoot suits” were hunted, stripped, and beaten by U.S ...
The familiar tale of "Romeo and Juliet" is given a twist by the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts, as it is ...
One of the darker points in the history of cultural relations in America, the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943 — an altercation between uniformed sailors and zoot-suit clad Angeleno ...
According to Homies online resource www.homies.tv, which has the 411 on the miniature figurines, the word “chuco” is short for “pachuco,” a “low-riding, zoot suit-wearing Chicano from the ’40s and ...
Introduction : a genealogy of vendidas -- Domesticating the pachuca -- Black skirts, dark slacks, and brown knees : pachuca style and spectacle -- During World War II -- Saying "nothin'" : pachucas ...
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