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The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II
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The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Hardcover - 2008

by Luis Alvarez


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"Luis Alvarez has quite simply crafted a magnificent first book--one that tells a national story from African American and Mexican American youth in New York and Los Angeles to Nisei, Filipino, and Euro-American zooters and the wartime race-based violence that erupted in Detroit, Beaumont, and Mobile."--Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

"Alvarez has broken new ground, with implications for our understanding of minority youth cultures of the past and today."--Edward J. Escobar, author of Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945

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  • Title The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II
  • Author Luis Alvarez
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 340
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date June 16, 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520253018 / 0520253019
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 6.38 x 1.09 in (23.29 x 16.21 x 2.77 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Chicano
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007033316
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.097

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About the author

Luis Alvarez is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
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