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The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24 Paperback - 2009

by Luis Alvarez


From the rear cover

"Luis Alvarez has quite simply crafted a magnificent first book--one that tells a national story from African American and Mexican American youth in New York and Los Angeles to Nisei, Filipino, and Euro-American zooters and the wartime race-based violence that erupted in Detroit, Beaumont, and Mobile."--Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

"Alvarez has broken new ground, with implications for our understanding of minority youth cultures of the past and today."--Edward J. Escobar, author of Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945

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  • Title The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24
  • Author Luis Alvarez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-09-22
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520261549 / 0520261542
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007033316
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.097

About the author

Luis Alvarez is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
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