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Defiant Design: The Zoot Suit (PART 2)
EPISODE NOTES:
This episode is a follow up to episode 5 where we got into the nitty gritty of the zoot suit’s origins. This episode is dedicated to the bloody conflict that surrounded the suit nationally and internationally in the 1940s, including the infamous zoot suit riots of Los Angeles.
Support us at :
https://www.patreon.com/historyunhemmed
https://anchor.fm/historyunhemmed/support
Follow us on:
Instagram: @history_unhemmed
Facebook: History Unhemmed
Thank you! <3
Resources:
Alvarez, Luis. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
“Densho Digital Repository.” Densho. 2022. <https://ddr.densho.org/?_ga=2.253375113.1677367262.1663867492-1432067065.1663867492>
Harden, Jacalyn D. Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago. Minneapolis, MNUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Jakes, Kelly. Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940-1945. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2019.
Mauricio Mazon, The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin,TX: University of Texas Press, 1984.
Pagán, Eduardo Obregón. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Peiss, Kathy. Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Ramirez, Catherine S. The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
Weitz, Mark A. The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press (2010).
Wu, Ellen D. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Watch:
American Experience. 2002. Season 14, Episode 6, “Zoot Suit Riots.” Directed by Joseph Tovares. Aired March 1, 2002 on PBS.
Producer, Peter Burrell, & Director Luiz Valdez. (1981). Zoot Suit.
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By History UnhemmedEPISODE NOTES:
This episode is a follow up to episode 5 where we got into the nitty gritty of the zoot suit’s origins. This episode is dedicated to the bloody conflict that surrounded the suit nationally and internationally in the 1940s, including the infamous zoot suit riots of Los Angeles.
Support us at :
https://www.patreon.com/historyunhemmed
https://anchor.fm/historyunhemmed/support
Follow us on:
Instagram: @history_unhemmed
Facebook: History Unhemmed
Thank you! <3
Resources:
Alvarez, Luis. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
“Densho Digital Repository.” Densho. 2022. <https://ddr.densho.org/?_ga=2.253375113.1677367262.1663867492-1432067065.1663867492>
Harden, Jacalyn D. Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago. Minneapolis, MNUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Jakes, Kelly. Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940-1945. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2019.
Mauricio Mazon, The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin,TX: University of Texas Press, 1984.
Pagán, Eduardo Obregón. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Peiss, Kathy. Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Ramirez, Catherine S. The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
Weitz, Mark A. The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press (2010).
Wu, Ellen D. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Watch:
American Experience. 2002. Season 14, Episode 6, “Zoot Suit Riots.” Directed by Joseph Tovares. Aired March 1, 2002 on PBS.
Producer, Peter Burrell, & Director Luiz Valdez. (1981). Zoot Suit.