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| | BrownPride.com : History |
 | | The term "zoot suit" sounded familiar to people, but most would not be able to say what a zoot suit was or what the riots were. | | | In 1997 the radio was playing a retro swing song called "Zoot Suit Riot" by the music group Cherry Poppin Daddies. | | | They said not to wear a zoot suit or they would take it off. |
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http://www.brownpride.com/history/history.asp?a=losangeles/zootsuitriots
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| | Zoot Suit |
| | Zoot Suit is a show band that can cater for every occasion and please a wide diversity of tastes and age groups. | | | For example, Zoot Suit can begin with a roving acoustic style set or solo piano, creating the atmosphere that you desire and proceed later to a full stage presentation. | | | We can structure the dynamic of the band during your special event in terms of musical format to suit your needs. |
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| | World War Two and the Zoot Suit Riots |
| | Y begins by asking each of the witnesses present to describe, for the record, exactly what a zoot suit is, where it originated, and why it became popular. | | | Swing bands and the jitterbug dance were popularized by a multitude of films and magazines, along with songs and even cartoons referring to the zoot suit. | | | The use of yards of material for the zoot suit clearly contradicted this trend. |
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http://w3.usf.edu/~lc/MOOs/zootsuit
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| | Zoot Suit Riot's Film |
| | The bloody confrontations between servicemen and zoot suiters that followed marked the beginning of the Zoot Suit Riots. | | | They punctuated their speech with jazz phrases like "hip" and "cool" and took fashion cues from African-Americans, favoring the zoot suit's exaggerated baggy pants and long jackets. | | | "The zoot suit riots are today more significant than ever," says Tovares. |
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http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/february01-02/ZOOT.HTM
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Zoot Suit |
| | One theory of the origins of the zoot suit was that it was imitated from the suit worn by Clark Cable in the movie Gone with the Wind. | | | He said he copied the fashions of ghetto-dwelling teenagers, and in 1941 made such suits for musicians who wanted an "eye-poppin' style." When Fox died in 1996 at the age of 86, he was buried in a lavender zoot suit. | | | The zoot suit received wide attention and recognition in the 1970s with the production of the play Zoot Suit, written and produced by Luis Valdez. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101367
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| | Journal of Popular Film and Television: Brechtian and Aztec violence in Valdez's 'Zoot Suit.' - playwright Luis ... |
| | Zoot Suit looks back to a time when young urban gangs were forming as an alternative ethnic ideal, prior to today's drug dealing, automatic weapons, and drive-by shootings. | | | His bilingual musical Zoot Suit combined all three forms as it moved from page to stage to screen.(1) | | | When Valdez made the musical into a feature film (1981), on a modest budget, he created a unique mixture of stage and cinema production. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n2_v26/ai_21221634
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| | Metroactive Stage 'Zoot Suit' |
| | It's been 25 years since Zoot Suit first strutted its way onto the stages of America, shaking up the theater world with its canny blend of music, real-life drama, Latino history, mysticism and cultural psychology. | | | Valdez believes it was no accident that young people were the progenitors of the zoot-suit craze of the 1940s, and it's no surprise that young audiences have developed an affinity for Zoot Suit, the movie and the play. | | | Valdez's legendary musical drama, a retelling of the infamous Hollywood zoot suit riots, the subsequent Sleepy Lagoon murder and the railroading of Chicano gang members in 1942, went on to become Broadway's first-ever Hispanic-culture production. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.25.04/zoot-suit-0435.html
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| | The suits and their wearers "challenged the hegemony of the dominant culture" | | | William Graebner, "Zoot Suits in Buffalo: Clothing and Style in a Folk Subculture," Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 August 1990, p. | | | They were not looking to kill anyone; they were simply striking back at an ostentatious target which, in the servicemens' eyes, was the source of their frustration: those "gamin' dandies"--the Zoot Suiters. |
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http://www.bisonusa.net/zoot.htm
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| | LOS ANGELES TIMES |
| | Hep-cat terms for the zoot suit are actually meaningless. | | | They were astonished when the "killer diller' caught on in Mississippi, New Orleans and Alabama and leap-frogged to Harlem.... | | | They had broken the jaw of a 12-year-old boy. |
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http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/H324War/Zootsuit.riots.media.1943.htm
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| | westword.com News The Next Stage |
| | Aside from his friends, Zoot Suit Riots is the only thing about high school that Elvis likes right now. | | | Elvis knows every line in Zoot Suit Riots, too, even though his character, El Pachuco, has the fewest of any lead. | | | But Elvis has tried to mold his own character. |
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http://www.westword.com/Issues/2004-04-22/news/feature_7.html
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| | The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare |
| | Tellez allegedly wore a colourful long drape coat that was "part of a $75 suit" and a pair of pegged trousers "very full at the knees and narrow at the cuffs" which were allegedly part of another suit. | | | They dragged the pachuco's onto the stage as the film was being screened, stripped them in front of the audience and as a final insult, urinated on the suits. | | | The zoot-suit was a refusal: a subcultural gesture that refused to concede to the manners of subservience. |
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http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/cosgrove.html
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| | American Experience Zoot Suit Riots Special Features |
| | Zoot Suit Culture: Flash MX version, with video (113k) | | | Please tell us what you think about "Zoot Suit Culture". | | | Initially an African American youth fashion, closely connected to jazz culture, the zoot suit was co-opted by a generation of Mexican American kids, who made it their own. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_sfeature/sf_zoot.html
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| | Zoot Suit Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A swing album called Zoot Suit Riot, featuring a song of the same name, was released by the American band Cherry Poppin' Daddies in 1997. | | | The riots were the inspiration for a play written by Luis Valdez — Zoot Suit, which itself inspired the 1981 filmed version. | | | A murder mystery novel, The Zoot Suit Murders by Thomas Sanchez, employed the riots as a backdrop to the main mystery. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots
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| | The Zoot Suit Riots |
| | They came hand-in-hand with the energetic swing-jazz music which represents the 40’s culture. | | | In my veins hot music ran "...- "Zoot Suit Riot" by Cherry Poppin' Daddies | | | This was when the suit came to be. |
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| | Zoot suit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The story ended with mainstream businessmen also taking to the zoot suit, whereupon it suddenly went out of style. | | | Zoot Suit, a play about the Zoot Suit Riots, and Zoot Suit, a 1981 filmed version of the play. | | | Zoot suits first gained popularity in Harlem jazz culture in the late 1930s. |
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| | Cats' Corner: The Zoot Suit |
| | They also make wonderful zoot pants for around $65. | | | An added bonus - you can buy nice men's two tone wingtips right next door at Queen's. | | | Malcolm X's first suit was a zoot, and he describes in detail the suit and his pride at owning one in his Autobiography. |
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| | 'Zoot Suit' riots anniversary subject of weeklong series of events |
| | Annual Zoot Suit Dance, featuring live music by Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalapeno Band. | | | This band is well known in the Bay Area and has been the opening act on tours by Los Lobos, the Los Angeles band that performed on the La Bamba soundtrack. | | | Friday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m.: A repeat screening of Zoot Suit. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com Television Guide |
| | Recalled earlier in the stage musical and the film "Zoot Suit," the events of 1942 and 1943 are now recorded by the PBS documentary series "American Experience," beginning with the still-unsolved murder of Jose Diaz near the Sleepy Lagoon. | | | Today, zoot suits can be bought from several sites on the World Wide Web. | | | Young Mexican-Americans were stripped of their zoot suits, which were then burned in the street. |
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| | Metroactive Stage 'Zoot Suit' |
| | To make such an impression on Valdez, CC must have been one cool pachuco, in love with the music, snapping his fingers to swing tunes and flaunting fabric-rationing rules of the day with the wide, draped swaths of a classy suit. | | | After 25 years, Luis Valdez brings his acclaimed 'Zoot Suit' home for a hit run at El Teatro Campesino | | | Valdez says he was inspired to write Zoot Suit while he was a young man exploring his identity and politics. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/12.11.02/zootsuit-0250.html
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| | Someone give me a good reference on the "Zoot suit" riots - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | They may have vertical files on the Zoot Suit Riots. | | | The riots were the product of posturing Latinos hitting on white girls who were waiting for their men to come home from the war. | | | However, I've heard from a couple of different sources that the riots were caused because the Mexicans were known to "roll" sailors on shore leave, and the sailors were just fighting back. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=38840
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| | Zoot Suit MetaFilter |
| | I'll agree with that first bit back in my grandfather's time. | | | This is all I know about zoot suits. | | | Zoot the word is apparently always associated with fashion in the time of Zoot Suits and allegedly apparently associated with ganja now. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/33338
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| | Amazon.ca: Zoot Suit: DVD |
| | Look for DVDs like Zoot Suit by subject: | | | But Zoot Suit has a couple of significant attractions. | | | "Zoot Suit" was fighting and uphill battle for my appreciation. |
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| | westword.com Entertainment Following Suit |
| | Blood Wedding features Elvis Nuñez and Alexandria Paulson, two Zoot stars. | | | But Mercado went in another direction with this year's fall play. | | | But new faces shine in this production, too, including junior Davina Santovena, who's striking and intense as the bride, and sophomore Maria Nambo, who brings an ease and energy into her first stage role. |
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| | In the 40tis in LA the Zoot Suit Riots started | | | Zoot Suit Riots - Dein Weg (Video MPEG) - | | | Zoot Suit Riots - Zoot Suit Riots (ganzes Lied) - |
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| | Riot - quiet, riots, zoot suit riots, watts riots |
| | Pussycat Dolls Get Dolled Up By Good Charlotte, Gwen At Grammy Style MTV - A-list celebs, designers converge at third annual Recording Academy-sponsored gifting suite Good Charlotte's Benji Madden and Pussycat Dolls' Kimberly Wyatt at the Grammy Style Studio Photo: MTV News HOLLYWOOD ” Kanye West isn't the only one with | | | Riot - quiet, riots, zoot suit riots, watts riots | | | Jackson: No Pope Project Michael Jackson's spokeswoman, Raymone Bain, has denied reports that Jackson might sing on a CD derived from Pope John Paul II's prayers |
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| | Zoot Suit Revue |
| | Zoot Suit Revue is produced by DMH Enterprises |
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| | Chicanos |
| | Although the suits were seen as flashy, ultimately what they were wearing was not significant. | | | The Zoot Suit Riots were a reaction by young Mexican-American males against a culture that did not want them to be a part of it. | | | Therefore, rather than struggling to fit in where they were obviously not wanted, Mexicans rebelled by forming a gang-like group in which everybody wore the same style of suit, which gave them their own identity. |
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| | Valdez brings stylish 'Zoot Suit' to Gammage |
| | Valdez says the zoot suit is as symbolic as his theatre production. | | | “Zoot Suit” broke all attendance records at the Taper and subsequently moved to the larger Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood to accommodate audience demand. | | | Created by playwright Luis Valdez, “Zoot Suit” made its world premiere in 1978 at the Mark Taper Forum where it ran for an unprecedented twelve-weeks. |
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| | Table of Contents and Excerpt, Mazón, The Zoot-Suit Riots |
| | Besides being the ideal attire for dancing the jitterbug the zoot suit also represented defiance. | | | In keeping with most fads the zoot suit was more conspicuous in large cities. | | | They are a remarkable event in that they defy simple classification. |
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| | Los Angeles: Painted City -- Zoot Suit |
| | But the majority of those who were arrested were not wearing zoot suits, showing that more than just attire was involved. | | | During the Second World War and after the Japanese were placed in internment camps, the Chicano in his Zoot Suit became a visible foe. | | | Except for a few detractors, the actions of the servicemen were praised, while the victims were imprisoned. |
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| | Why did the LAPD and criminal justice system treat pachucos (masculine term for Chicano “punks”) and pachucas (the female equivalent) differently during the 1940s? | | | But were the Zoot Suit riots random or without the force of law? | | | Zoot Suit Riots Produced and Directed by Joseph Tovares, 1 hour. |
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| | UTSA offers pre-screening of PBS's 'Zoot Suit Riots' |
| | "Zoot Suit Riots" is the first major documentary on this topic and is part of the American Experience series. | | | "The zoot suit riots remain significant because the underlying issues that led to the violence are still with us today," said Tovares. | | | Seventeen zoot-suiters were tried for murder, and despite a lack of evidence, all were found guilty. |
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| | Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots |
| | They came into contact with swarms of other young men who wore another type of uniform...military men. | | | The local press had been beating a drum of fear that a "Mexican crime wave" had hit the city and "zoot suiters" and "gangsters" were one and the same. | | | Police made a few initial token arrests of sailors, but they were quickly released. |
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| | The Austin Chronicle Screens: L.A. Story |
| | They learned a very difficult lesson, that L.A. in the Forties wasn't going to let them do it. | | | Finally, the LAPD blew the whistle, ending the riots when it banned both servicemen and the wearing of zoot suits within city limits. | | | Simmering just beneath the deceptively laid-back California surface is a flammable oil-and-water mix of 50,000 mostly white sailors restlessly awaiting their marching orders and neighborhoods of rebellious Mexican-American youth walking the streets dressed in in-your-face zoot suits. |
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| | The history of the Zoot suit Riots is about the racism we had in the 1940's. | | | The police would arrest the one's who were wearing the zootsuit. |
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| | Zoot Suit - Wal-Mart |
| | Featuring Edward James Olmos (as the mythical ?Pachuco?) in the role that catapulted him to stardom, Zoot Suit is a scorchingly searing and seductively provocative work that skillfully blends action, drama, romance and music! | | | Part fascinating fact, part dazzling fiction, Zoot Suit is the blistering film adaptation of playwright Luis Valdez? | | | critically acclaimed stage drama based on the ?zoot suit riots? |
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| | About Zoot Suit Riots |
| | PBS presents this site to explore the history and issues that surrounded the trial and caused the Zoot Suit Riots. | | | Find other resources on the Zoot Suit Riots. | | | Read through the time line covering the events before, during, and after the riots. |
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http://www.learn.motion.com/topten/soclinks/zootsuit.htm
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| | Mazón, The Zoot-Suit Riots, University of Texas Press |
| | The causes of the rioting were complex, as Mazón demonstrates in this illuminating analysis of their psychodynamics. | | | Based in part on previously undisclosed FBI and military records, this engrossing study goes beyond sensational headlines and biased memories to provide an understanding of the zoot-suit riots in the context of both Mexican American and Anglo social history. | | | In the end none were killed, few were seriously injured, and property damage was slight and yet, even today, the zoot-suit riots are remembered and hold emotional and symbolic significance for Mexican Americans and Anglos alike. |
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| | Sleepy Lagoon Historia Murder Mystery |
| | He was the inspiration for the character Henry Reyna in the Valdez play Zoot Suit. | | | Not long after his release from prison, Henry Leyvas was convicted of a criminal offense after receiving a fair trial. | | | Henry Leyvas, age 20, worked on his father's ranch. |
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| | Digital History |
| | This order immediately slowed down the pace of the rioting. | | | The Los Angeles City Council banned zoot suits within the city. | | | California's Governor, Earl Warren, formed a committee to investigate the causes of the "Zoot Suit" riots. |
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| | "Pachucos in the Making": Roots of the Zoot |
| | Wartime rationing regulations effectively banned zoot suits because they ostensibly wasted fabric, so a combination of patriotism and racism impelled white soldiers to denounce Mexican-American wearers of the zoot suit as slackers and hoodlums. | | | While the exact origin of the loose-fitting “zoot suit,” worn by Mexican-American and African-American youths in the 1940s, is obscure, its most important roots were among Mexican-American youths, or pachucos. | | | See Also:"We're Looking for Zoot-Suits to Burn": Mexican Americans and the Zoot Suit Riots |
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| | AV #83900 - Video Cassette - Zoot Suit Riots |
| | AV #83900 - Video Cassette - Zoot Suit Riots | | | Seventeen young men, known as " zoot-suiters " for their clothing style, were convicted of the crime, despite a lack of evidence. | | | This PBS program reviews this dark chapter in California history. |
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| | Zoot Suit |
| | June, 1943 Sailors begin beating up Mexican young men in Zoot Suits: Long coats, wide pants with narrow cuffs, snap brim hats, two tone shoes-the cool, hip outfit, borrowed from African-American Jazz culture. | | | For over a week Sailors, then LA Anglos battled with Pachucos in Zoot Suits, then any Mexican American-Race war. | | | LA Newspapers and LA Mayor say riots were not about race, but Mexican delinquents' fault. |
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| | NPR : Zoot Suit Riots |
| | The Tavis Smiley Show, February 8, 2002 · Regular commentator Kimberle Williams Crenshaw talks to host Tavis Smiley about the history of the "Zoot Suit Riots." Crenshaw says that the trial of the zoot suiters is especially relevant to the issue of racial profiling today. |
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