10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZOOT-SUITER»
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zoot-suiter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
zoot-suiter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Woman in the
Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the ...
Catherine S. Ramírez draws on interviews she conducted with Mexican American women who came of age in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s as she recovers the neglected stories of pachucas.
Catherine S. Ramírez, 2010
2
Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
A more prominent effort for the Treasury Department that accentuated the official
view of the zoot suiter was the Walt Disney cartoon Spirit of '43. Disney had
created a similar film promoting Americans' wartime duty to pay taxes and buy
war ...
3
The
Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation
Based in part on previously undisclosed FBI and military records, this engrossing study goes beyond sensational headlines and biased memories to provide an understanding of the zoot-suit riots in the context of both Mexican American and ...
4
Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California
Baca transposes Rivera's rendering of this male figure's splayed hand to her own
depiction of the defeated zoot-suiter in The Great Wall of Los Angeles. I would
argue that this small vignette does not merely indicate Rivera's stylistic influence
...
5
The Mexican American Experience: An Encyclopedia
ZOOT-SUITER whose teenage members had adopted as a kind of badge the
zoot suit outfit then all the rage among urban American youths. A number of small
altercations occurred in the early spring of 1943, when sailors and soldiers ...
Matt S. Meier, Margo Gutiérrez, 2003
6
Shakin' Up Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in ...
See López, “María Cristina Mena.” 4. The negative side of the spectrum of
symbolic descriptors attributed to the pachuco and zoot-suiter included “bizarre
creature,” “social pariah,” a sinister, dangerous, anarchistic figure. What is certain
is that ...
7
The Power of the
Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during ...
A Longer History of Zoot Suiter– Servicemen Conflict The tension between zoot
suiters and servicemen in the Los Angeles area began well before the Zoot Suit
Riots. As early as the mid-1930s, when zoot style was just catching on as popular
...
8
Racism, Sexism, and the Media: Multicultural Issues Into the ...
Turner and Surace wrote that unlike the symbol “Mexican,” the “zoot-suiter”
symbol evokes no ambivalent sentiments but appears in exclusively unfavorable
contexts. While, in fact, Mexicans were attacked indiscriminately in spite of
apparel (of ...
Clint C Wilson II, Felix Gutierrez, Lena Chao, 2012
9
Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970
Don't Make the 'Bato Loco' Go the Way of the Zoot Suiter June 19,1970 A bato
loco is a zoot suiter with a social conscience. He may be an ex-con, a marijuana
smoker and dangerously defiant. But the difference between the zoot suiter or ...
Ruben Salazar, Mario T. García, 1998
10
Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American ...
To situate the specific duality of lowrider automobile aesthetics within barriology,
a precedent may be found in the pachuco and zoot-suiter culture popular in
1940s Los Angeles and elsewhere—an aesthetic precedent that lowriders
embrace ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZOOT-SUITER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
zoot-suiter is used in the context of the following news items.
Harry Thetford: Marine Corps is family affair for Wilkersons
“I think he would have been a zoot-suiter if I had allowed it. Finally, I told him to shape up, work hard or enlist in the military — but not as a Marine. He followed ... «Greensboro News & Record, Jul 15»
June 20, 1951: Servicemen and zoot-suiters brawl on Edmonton …
Another fight started at 95th Street and Jasper when a zoot-suiter threw a butcher's knife at a soldier, hitting him in the back with the handle. In the brawl that ... «Edmonton Journal, Jun 15»
Steven Spielberg Director's Collection
... story was expanded in size and scope up and away from its modest Popeye- like love story of a Zoot-Suiter trying to take a USO babe to a soldiers-only dance. «DVD Talk, Oct 14»
Caught in a Zoot Suit Riot
On June 13, Merrill Myers, a 47-year-old café proprietor on North Fair Oaks Avenue was stabbed and a 16-year-old zoot-suiter was arrested and blamed in the ... «Hometown Pasadena, Jun 14»
Misplaced guilt
“Anyone who isn't shuffling along playing the Sambo routine is seen as arrogant. He's seen as uppity. He's a zoot-suiter. He's a 20-year-old punk, this symbol of ... «Corvallis Gazette Times, Jan 13»
When comedian Paula Poundstone laughs, the world laughs with her
Paula has an amazing wardrobe; it's kind of part circus clown, part zoot-suiter, and I love her for it." Poundstone began her stand-up career in Boston and a ... «Columbia Daily Tribune, Jun 12»
'Home,' a Novel by Toni Morrison
At times, “Home” displays its meanings with all the subtlety of a zoot-suiter. We are told that Frank and Cee's grandmother “was the wicked witch” to their “Hansel ... «New York Times, May 12»
Sacramento State
“My grandfather was a zoot-suiter so I talked to him a lot,” Perales says. Zoot Suit is part of Sacramento State's Festival of the Arts, an eight-day focus on the ... «Sacramento State University, Mar 12»
Hep Cats, Street Fights
The "sharpie" tries to lure Donald into a saloon; but just in time he sees that the zoot-suiter has a shock of Hitler hair and a little square mustache. Donald gives ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 11»
Saying 'F*ck You' to the Sexualized Orientalist Gaze
About Malcolm X's former incarnation as a slick zoot-suiter with a red conk, black gay academic Kobena Mercer writes, “Far from an attempted simulation of ... «AlterNet, Jan 11»
