Pachucos, young Mexican Americans with a penchant for flashy attire, embraced zoot suit fashion, jump blues, jazz and swing music and affirmed their self-empowerment by rejecting assimilation into ...

Those who were found wearing zoot suits were beaten and often stripped of their clothing. Thousands of white civilians cheered them on and helped the sailors. As the riot progressed, Mexican ...

In the 1930s, Mexican American youth in the Southwest united to oppose racism, segregation and discrimination in the United States. Influenced by the style of Black Americans in Harlem, New York ...

With the hope of getting more people through their doors, Natural History Museum officials are opening the venue’s new “front ...

The 2024 Día de los Muertos communal gathering was held by the Barrio Arts and Ethnic Studies department in the library quad ...

For a second time, Willy Chavarria's Chicano-inspired designs take the CFDA Fashion Awards Menswear Designer of the Year ...

Fans typically buy a sports jersey because of who's wearing it. But in the Minor Leagues, what’s on a jersey can often mean ...

And there’s a palpable sense of pride in his exploration of modern Latinidad style, weaving elements of Chicano and cholo fashion trends—flowy zoot suits ... who is of Mexican and Colombian ...

He vividly remembered the Zoot Suit riots of 1943 ... who achieved things he could never imagine growing up as a “poor Mexican kid,” which is how he often described himself.

Often excluded are significant moments such as the Mexican-American War ... history into his lessons to include topics such as the Zoot Suit riots that erupted in Los Angeles in 1943 after ...

We call that Chicano ingenuity.” Hugo Cardenas and Araceli Martinez, wearing Zoot suits of the Mexican American subculture known as Pachucos, dance while attending a lowrider exhibition during ...