Pachucas, Pachucos and their Culture

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Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:00am
Pachucas, Pachucos and their Culture: Mexican American Youth Culture of the Southwest, 1910-1955

Host Carlos Chavez interviews Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Gerardo "Lalo" Licon. Lalo studied history at the University of Southern California and wrote his dissertation on the Pachuco Culture. Many recognize the Pachucos as the so called "Zoot Suiters," but the zoot suit was only part of this unique and somewhat buried history and cultural identity that Lalo explains further.

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