The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24

Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop...
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Author: Luis Alvarez
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Language: English
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The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24 by Alvarez, Luis

The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24

BD$75.08

The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24

BD$75.08
Author: Luis Alvarez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing, unique patterns of speech, and even risqu experimentation with gender and sexuality, captivated the country's youth in the 1940s. The Power of the Zoot is the first book to give national consideration to this famous phenomenon. Providing a new history of youth culture based on rare, in-depth interviews with former zoot-suiters, Luis Alvarez explores race, region, and the politics of culture in urban America during World War II. He argues that Mexican American and African American youths, along with many nisei and white youths, used popular culture to oppose accepted modes of youthful behavior, the dominance of white middle-class norms, and expectations from within their own communities.

Author: Luis Alvarez
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/22/2009
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780520261549

About the Author
Luis Alvarez is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

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