By Kent Forrester – Ricochet.com – Photo Not Credited. Around 1948, Red and I, both around ten-years-old and, true to our Irish DNA, red-headed and as pale as the underside of a trout, wandered into a dicey area of Compton, California. We were out a bit...
By Kristen Lopez – Remezcla.com – Photo Courtesy Of HBO. Photo: “Real Women Have Curves” still featuring America Ferrera. Patricia Cardoso’s 2002 indie feature, Real Women Have Curves follows a first-generation Mexican-American (played by...
By Joel Beers – OCWeekly.com – Photo courtesy Shakespeare OC. Photo: Miguel Perez plays El Pachuco. Someday, maybe Luis Valdez’s 1978 play Zoot Suit will be treated with the humble reverence and respect afforded any museum piece, as something that was...
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:...
Anonymous – TheDailyOmnivore.net – Image Not Credited. Image: Zoot Suit Items In Spanish And English The Pachuco style originated in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and moved westward, following the line of migration of Mexican railroad workers...
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