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The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II - American Crossroads
Luis Alvarez
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II - American Crossroads
Luis Alvarez
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.
336 pages, 18 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 22, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780520261549 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 141 × 221 × 21 mm · 486 g |
Language | English |