Zoot Suit Summary
Luis Valdez

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Zoot Suit Summary

Zoot Suit brings to life a racially-charged trial of the 1940s, in which a group of pachucos, Mexican-American gang members, are charged and sentenced with the murder of another Mexican American. Playwright Luis Valdez depicts the trial of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder and the related Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in a combination of docudrama, myth, and musical. Zoot Suit was designed to reach a larger audience than those targeted by the improvisational...

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Zoot Suit

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Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez Bor n in 1940, Luis Valdez was three years old and lived in Los Angeles when the zoot suit riots erupted there. Valdez envisioned writing about them someday, then realized ... Read more

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Analysis of "Zoot Suit"

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The book Zoot Suit has symbolic significance for Mexican Americans and tells about the riots during World War II. The Sleepy Lagoon Murder was one step in the fight for the rights and respect of Mexi... Read more

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