The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II (American Crossroads) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II (American Crossroads) Book

Offering a history of youth culture based on interviews with former zoot-suiters this book explores race region and the politics of culture in urban America during World War II. It 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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing, unique patterns of speech, and even risque experimentation with gender and sexuality, captivated the country's youth in the 1940s.

  • 0520261542
  • 9780520261549
  • L Alvarez
  • 9 October 2009
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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