By AmericanSabor.org – Photo Don Tosti Papers/CEMA 88

Pachuco boogie was a Mexican American dance music that alternated between African American and Afro-Caribbean styles. In the late 1930s young Mexican American men and women rejected by both American and Mexican society invented a counterculture that expressed social tensions through attitude, fashion, dance and eclectic musical tastes. Known as pachucos and pachucas, they favored zoot suits and big band swing.

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