Catherine S. Ramírez

The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

"Powerful and innovative, "The Woman in the Zoot Suit" will serve as a foundational text for future studies on culture, race, gender, and sexuality. Catherine S. Ramirez expertly reveals the complexities of pachuca identity, the extent of Mexican American women zoot suiters' representation in and engagement with popular culture and mainstream media, and, ultimately, the ways that these young women disrupted dominant notions of U.S., Mexican American, and Chicana/o identity, nationalism, and family."--Luis Alvarez, author of "The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343035
• ISBN-10: 0822343037
• Artikelnr.: 25943054

Autorenporträt

Catherine S. Ramírez

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxi
A Note on Terminology xxv
Introduction: A Genealogy of Vendidas 1
1. Domesticating the Pachuca 25
2. Black Skirts, Dark Slacks, and Brown Knees: Pachuca Style and Spectacle
during World War II 55
3. Saying "Nothin'": Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance 83
4. La Pachuca and the Excesses of Family and Nation 109
Epilogue: Homegirls Then and Now, from the Home Front to the Frontline 137
Notes 149
Bibliography 197
Index 225