Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Sleepy Lagoon Case
• 3. The "Zoot Suit Yokum" Conspiracy
• 4. Servicemen and Zoot-Suiters
• 5. The Zoot-Suit Riots
• 6. The Symbols, Imagery, and Rhetoric of the Riots
• 7. "The Hard to Get At"
• 8. Between Annihilation and Redemption
• Appendices
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Mauricio MazÓn (1945-2004) was a professor of history at the University of Southern California.

Reviews

In the nascent field of Chicano history psychohistorical studies are not abundant. Thus MazÓn makes an immense contribution to the study of the Mexican American. (American Historical Review)