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Article: Zoot Suit Riots
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society;      700+ words ...Zoot Suit Riots The "zoot suit riots" occurred in Los Angeles, California, between June 3 and ... Department declared the city off-limits to military personnel. The zoot suit riots resulted from intense bias against the growing Mexican-American ...

Encyclopedia entry: zoot-suit riots
The Oxford Companion to World War II;      322 words ...zoot-suit riots, sparked off in Los Angeles, California, in June 1943 when a rumour spread that a gang of young Mexican-Americans or pachucos ...

Article: Today DISCUSSION -- La Pena hosts a panel discussion on the 60th ...
Oakland Tribune;  June 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Friday OPEN MIKE -- Berkeley City Commons Club presents its noon luncheon- lecture series, featuring an open mike with members speaking on "Wisdom, Experience, Humor and Whatever," lunch served 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., $11.50 to $12.50, talk begins at 12:30 p.m., $1, 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley,

Article: Brechtian and Aztec violence in Valdez's 'Zoot ...
Journal of Popular Film and Television;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... time of the historical Sleepy Lagoon murder and zoot-suit riots. In significant ways the film reaches even further ... historical events of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and zoot-suit riots. Zoot Suit reveals a great deal about the drive toward violence ...

Article: Zoot Suit
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages;      700+ words ... ... and sense of identity that the zoot suit culture inspired in youth of color ... young men wearing the distinctive zoot suit. Perhaps the most extreme example of this violence was the "zoot suit riots" that occurred in Los Angeles ...

Article: Cool Threads: El Teatro's Zoot Suit portrays the ...
Coast Weekly;  January 15, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... On the most surface of levels, Zoot Suit is the fictionalized retelling ... of Henry Leyvas and the ensuing Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in the early 1940s ... originated in black culture. As the Zoot Suit Riots spread across the country from ...

Article: Girl delinquents.(The Woman in the Zoot Suit: ...
The Women's Review of Books;  September 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the young and often misunderstood zoot-suit-wearing pachucas of the 1940s ... Using a feminist approach and the zoot-suit riots and the Sleepy Lagoon murder as ... Ramirez's The Woman In the Zoot Suit "recenters pachucas as agents ...