Zoot Suit Riots: Clothes, Culture, and Murder - Hardcover

Turner, Barbara J.

 
9780984254934: Zoot Suit Riots: Clothes, Culture, and Murder
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0984254935 ISBN 13: 9780984254934
Verlag: Apprentice Shop Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Should clothing capture the spirit of a culture, define people, or make them targets? In the case of a zoot suit, wearing one during World War II meant all three. The freedom of the 40's--nightclubs, jazz music, swing dancing--masks the underlying racial tensions of the era. Wearing zoot suits was a way to display style and culture but ended up making Mexican Americans targets. Fueled by World War II paranoia, tensions rose to an unforgiving point in June 1943 Los Angeles when wearing a zoot suit meant you were likely to become a victim. Capturing the racial tension of the period, Zoot Suit Riots describes the turbulent events that divided communities, pitted servicemen against immigrants,m and shut down a city.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara J. Turner is the author of A Little Bit of Rob and Out and About at the Orchestra, and contributing author to Apprentice Shop Books' America's Notable Women Series. She has always been interested in history--particularly in the story behind the story--and in what makes people do the things they do. She has found that history is more often made by ordinary people doing what they believe is right rather than extraordinary things. She, herself, is an ordinary person writing for ordinary kids who might someday, perhaps, make history themselves.

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Verlag
Apprentice Shop Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0984254935
ISBN 13 
9780984254934
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
80
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