CH ST 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Greatest Generation, List Of Minor 2000 Ad Stories, Zoot Suit
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Becoming mexican-american: they evolve into their identity, they aren"t born mexican- Pachucos: part of the mexican-american generation, expressed alienation, found it difficult to bridge cultures, had unique style and language, counterculture, reject assimilation. Zoot-suitors: popular among young mexican-americans, many pachucos dressed in these, women also wore the zoot-suits. Pachucos and zoot suitors had tensions, organized in gangs. Zoot-suit riots (1943): tensions building between zoot-suitors and us navy stationed in los. Attacked anyone wearing a zoot suit, or anyone who looked mexican. Conflicts in downtown la and east la barrios. Example of racism in world war 2, around same time as japanese internment camps. 350k to 500k latinos fought in world war 2. Arturo smith: part of march, filipino and japanese. Latinos won the most congressional medal of honors in ww2. Greatest generation : not applied to mexicans, popularized in 1990s by book, suggests that.
