By Research.Pomona.edu – Image Not Credited Pachuco and Pachuca are terms coined in the 1940s to refer to Mexican American men and women who dressed in zoot suits or zoot suit-influenced attire. Though there is no definite origin of the word Pachuco, one theory...
By CTVNews.ca – Photo Yuri Cortez/AFP Decked out in baggy suits, their watch chains swinging to the mambo as feathers bop atop their wide-brimmed hats, Mexico’s “pachucos” are keeping alive the tradition of the zoot suit — and the...
By Gerardo Licón – www.KCET.org – Photo Los Angeles Public Library/Shades of L.A. Collection Much attention was brought to pachuco culture in Los Angeles as a result of the Sleepy Lagoon incident of 1942, the Sleepy Lagoon trial that concluded in early...
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...
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