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Pachucos Summary
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The pachucos were Latino street rebels of the 1940s who innovated a style and attitude that expressed their defiance of mainstream America. Dressed to kill in zoot suits and with pompadour haircuts they hung out on the streets of East Los Angeles,...
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Pachuco Information
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Pachucos were Mexican American youths who developed their own subculture during the 1930s and 1940s in the Southwestern United States. They wore distinctive clothes (such as Zoot Suits) and spoke their own dialect (Caló). Due to their...


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The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
Punto Final! I Pachuco, Too
12/18/2000: 751 words, approx. 3 pages
¡PUNTO FINAL! I PACHUCO, TOO Fifty years ago, Octavio Paz wrote a severe assessment of the Pachuco in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). In the 1940s, at the height of WW II, he had seen zoot-suited young Mexican Americans in L.A. harassed by...
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Latin Beat Magazine
Requiem to a Pachuco.(musician Don Tosti)(Obituario)
10/01/2004: 975 words, approx. 3 pages
REQUIEM TO A PACHUCO: It was on a Monday morning (August 2) that I heard Don Tosti had passed away. His sister Marilyn Martinez Wood tearfully spoke about visiting him a few days before he lapsed into a coma. He died peacefully at his...
 


 

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