The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Ramírez, Catherine S.
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Ramírez, Catherine S.

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

The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered...
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The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Ramírez, Catherine S.

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

$80.70
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Ramírez, Catherine S.

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

$80.70
Author: Catherine S. Ramírez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship, The Woman in the Zoot Suit is the first book focused on pachucas.

Two events in wartime Los Angeles thrust young Mexican American zoot suiters into the media spotlight. In the Sleepy Lagoon incident, a man was murdered during a mass brawl in August 1942. Twenty-two young men, all but one of Mexican descent, were tried and convicted of the crime. In the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943, white servicemen attacked young zoot suiters, particularly Mexican Americans, throughout Los Angeles. The Chicano movement of the 1960s-1980s cast these events as key moments in the political awakening of Mexican Americans and pachucos as exemplars of Chicano identity, resistance, and style. While pachucas and other Mexican American women figured in the two incidents, they were barely acknowledged in later Chicano movement narratives. Catherine S. Ram rez draws on interviews she conducted with Mexican American women who came of age in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s as she recovers the neglected stories of pachucas. Investigating their relative absence in scholarly and artistic works, she argues that both wartime U.S. culture and the Chicano movement rejected pachucas because they threatened traditional gender roles. Ram rez reveals how pachucas challenged dominant notions of Mexican American and Chicano identity, how feminists have reinterpreted la pachuca, and how attention to an overlooked figure can disclose much about history making, nationalism, and resistant identities.



Author: Catherine S. Ramírez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/16/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.16w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822343035


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/22/2008 pg. 43
Choice 02/01/2010

About the Author

Catherine S. Ramírez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.


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