The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramírez, Catherine S.

Ramâirez, Catherine Sue, Author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Ethnic identity--20th century--Los Angeles--California.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--Social conditions--California--Los Angeles.

Mexican American women--History.

Mexican American women--Social conditions.

Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009..

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Terminology; Introduction: A Genealogy of Vendidas; 1. Domesticating the Pachuca; 2. Black Skirts, Dark Slacks, and Brown Knees: Pachuca Style and Spectacle during World War II; 3. Saying "Nothin'": Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance; 4. La Pachuca and the Excesses of Family and Nation; Epilogue: Homegirls Then and Now, from the Home Front to the Front Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822388647

0822388642

OCLC:

317321681