By Melissa Smith – NYTimes.com – Photo: Courtesy of Guadalupe Rosales. Photo: A party crew on 6th Street Bridge, in Boyle Heights. 1993. Guadalupe Rosales is a collector. For an installation in art school, she built her version of a typical teenager’s...
By Mariana Viera – TeenVogue.com – Photo: Anthony Potter Collection. The nameless protagonist in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man vividly details the first time they encountered a zoot suit: “It was as though I’d never seen their like before:...
By Kaylah Jackson – ConnectingVets.com – Photo courtesy of VOCES Oral History Project. When Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez was looking for books about the Mexican-American experience during World War II, she couldn’t find anything. But it’s not because there...
By Laura Lomas | Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University Newark – TheConversation.com – Photo: Alvy Libros/flickr, CC BY-SA Photo: Many authors born in Latin America have produced some of their finest work while living in the United States. As...
By Lettycia Terrones – HBook.com – Photo Not Credited. In 1942 Los Angeles, after working all day at the canneries, teen sisters Lorena and Marisela can’t wait to put on their sharpest swing skirts and high heels for a night of jazz dancing with...
By Leah Scarpelli & David Brown – TexasStandard.org – Photo Not Credited. Photo: Freddy Fender on stage. Baldemar Huerta, known as Freddy Fender, was in his day, a Mexican-American Elvis. Twelve years after his death from lung cancer, his daughter,...
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The Zoot Shirt: Red
$40.00
Pachuco Lapel Chain Pin
$35.00
Pachuco or Pachuca Brooch Pin
$20.00
Headlights Pachuco Tie Clip
$20.00
New Patches
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