Life After Mexican Girls

In the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943, white servicemen attacked young zoot suiters, notably Mexican Americans, all through Los Angeles. The Chicano motion of the 1960s–1980s cast these events as key moments in the political awakening of Mexican Americans and pachucos as exemplars of Chicano identification, resistance, and...

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