The Importance Of Zoot Suit Riots
Impact Chicanos have a particular society; they have been through a numerous events, mostly bad ones to fight for their rights. The importance of the Zoot Suit Riots lay not only in what the WWII was about—freedom, antiracism and segregation, but also in how it might be used to gain insight in the youth culture movement, which can demonstrate how the government can undertake and prohibit their own lives and identities (Alvarez, 2008). Zoot Suits were not simply metaphors for the political agendas of others, rather they practiced their own cultural politics, which if examined carefully can teach us a great deal about how seemingly powerless populations craft their own identities and claim dignity (Alvarez, 2008). This brings the issue that
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The Los Angeles City Council issued a ban on zoot suits the following day. An investigation was opened in order to find the cause of these riots, an official report stated that racism was the cause. Fletcher Brown, the Los Angeles mayor, denied the results and stated that his conclusion to these riots were caused by the violent and juvenile actions that the Mexican-Americans were involved in, he did not take racial prejudice as a component in the riots. Amazingly, no one was killed during the weeklong riot, but it wasn’t the last outburst of zoot suit-related racial violence (Alvarez, 2008). As Alvarez said, over the years, countless recent uprising has displaced the Zoot Suits riots in people’s consciousness, but understanding what happened in 1943 it is important to know what the episodes of violence were about. All these riots demonstrate the rigidity of the American Culture towards any non-white race to a level where the only fact of wearing extravagant suits brings not only verbal reprimand, but also a violent race-based retribution. Moreover, these actions also demonstrated how the government can diminish youth cultural movements can be diminished by a government were politics distort the meaning and importance of having a
The Los Angeles City Council issued a ban on zoot suits the following day. An investigation was opened in order to find the cause of these riots, an official report stated that racism was the cause. Fletcher Brown, the Los Angeles mayor, denied the results and stated that his conclusion to these riots were caused by the violent and juvenile actions that the Mexican-Americans were involved in, he did not take racial prejudice as a component in the riots. Amazingly, no one was killed during the weeklong riot, but it wasn’t the last outburst of zoot suit-related racial violence (Alvarez, 2008). As Alvarez said, over the years, countless recent uprising has displaced the Zoot Suits riots in people’s consciousness, but understanding what happened in 1943 it is important to know what the episodes of violence were about. All these riots demonstrate the rigidity of the American Culture towards any non-white race to a level where the only fact of wearing extravagant suits brings not only verbal reprimand, but also a violent race-based retribution. Moreover, these actions also demonstrated how the government can diminish youth cultural movements can be diminished by a government were politics distort the meaning and importance of having a