The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II
- ISBN-10
- 0520261542
- ISBN-13
- 9780520261549
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-22
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Luis Alvarez
Description
“Luis Alvarez has quite simply crafted a magnificent first book—one that tells a national story from African American and Mexican American youth in New York and Los Angeles to Nisei, Filipino, and Euro-American zooters and the wartime race-based violence that erupted in Detroit, Beaumont, and Mobile.”—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America "Alvarez has broken new ground, with implications for our understanding of minority youth cultures of the past and today."—Edward J. Escobar, author of Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945
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