Thursday, November 13, 2008
The Power of the Zoot
Even those who skipped history class one too many times know of the baggy zoot suits worn by many minority youths during the 1940s. Few, however, know the extent to which the flamboyantly colored zoot suits represented a subculture.
In a heavily researched history, alumnus Luis Alvarez (Ph.D. History ‘01) examines the black, Hispanic, and sometimes white suit-wearers often depicted as renegades from mainstream society and illuminates their point of view with interviews of former zoot suiters.
Alvarez examines the instances leading
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