Excerpt from <i>Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style</i>
Kathy Peiss knocks the established literature akilter in her study of the zoot suit. This flashy, over-the-top garb of the 1940s has long been studied as a uniform of hipsters and <em>pachucos</em> in the United States, who were targeted for violent repression by white police and service...
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| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/78k1r8vc |