The Los Angeles "Zoot Suit riots" revisited: Mexican and Latin American perspectives

Mexican Studies - Estudios Mexicanos

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-390

  Del Castillo, Richard Griswold ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247306123     PISSN: 07429797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1052202     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. See Rudolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 255-58
2. Marilyn Domer, "The Zoot-Suit Riot: A Culmination of Social Tensions in Los Angeles" (M.A. thesis, Claremont Graduate School, 1972)
3. Dale Drum, Report on Pachuco Gang Activities in the City of Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Navy Recruiting Station and the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, 1951)
4. Alfredo Guerra Gonzalez, "Mexicano/Chicano Gangs in Los Angeles: A Sociohistorical Case Study" (Ph.D.diss., UCLA, 1981)
5. Solomon James Jones, "The Government Riots of Los Angeles, June 1943" (M.A. thesis, UCLA, 1969)
6. For contemporary interpretations of this phenomenon see Beatrice Griffith, American Me (Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1948), 15-28
7. George I. Sanchez, "Pachucos in the Making," Common Ground 4, (Autumn 1943), 13-20
8. Ruth D. Tuck, Not with the Fist: Mexican-Americans in a Southwest City (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974)
9. also Ralph H. Turner and Samuel J. Surace, "Zoot-Suiters and Mexicans: Symbols in Crowd Behavior," American Journal of Sociology 62 (1956), 14-24
10. McWilliams, North from Mexico, 249
11. Alfredo Elias Calles to the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), 10 June 1943, "Disturbios Raciales en Los Angeles, California," Archivo de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico City, File III 651-1 (hereafter cited as SRE Archives)
12. Stephen R. Niblo, "The Impact of War: Mexico and World War II," Latrobe University Institute of Latin American Studies, Occasional Paper, no. 10, (Australia: LaTrobe University, 1988), 8
13. See also his larger study, War, Diplomacy, and Development: The United States and Mexico, 1938-1954 (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1995)
14. Niblo, "The Impact of War," 28
15. Adolfo de la Huerta C. Lic. Ezequiel Padilla, June 10, 1943, SRE Archive
16. Coded Cablegram from the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores to the Mexican Embassy, Washington D.C., June 14, 1943, in SRE Archive
17. Los Angeles Daily News, 6 June 1943, 9
18. Los Angeles Examiner, 10 June 1943, 9
19. La Opinion, 12 June 1943, 1
20. Domer, "The Zoot-Suit Riots," 110
21. For the Mexican government's internal handling of the affair "Circular a nuestras misiones diplomaticos," 17 June 1943, SRE Achives
22. Excelsior, 13 June 1943, 4
23. Hollywood Citizen News, 22 June 1943, 5
24. Novedades, 20 June 1943, 1
25. Inter-American, July 1943, 6
26. Ibid
27. Excelsior 26 June 1943, 6:3a
28. New York Times, 26 June 1943, 28
29. quoted in Jones, "The Government Riots," 39-40
30. The Inter-American, August 1943, 5
31. Memorandum, 28 July 1943, Mexican Embassy in Washington and the Justice Department, SRE Archive
32. Los Angeles Herald-Express, 9 June 1943
33. Agent telegram to Director, 10 June 1943, Los Angeles, (FIA)
34. The People's World, 9 June 1943, 1
35. "There is also considerable evidence of the Party's desire to play up the race angle with a view toward extending its influence among the Mexican minority group in California." Ibid., 9
36. California State Senate, Report of the Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California (Sacramento, 1945), 210
37. See the discussion of this in Michael B. Salwen and Brice Barrison, Latin American Journalism (Hillsdale: L. Erlbaum Assoc., 1991)
38. El Popular, 10 July 1943
39. New Republic, 21 June 1943, 819
40. El Norte (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon), 22 June 1943
41. El Crisol, 20 June 1943
42. Prensa Grafica, 14, 15, 24 June 1943
43. Diario Latino, 12, 14, 24 June 1943
44. Nuesto Diario (Guatemala), 25 June 1943
45. El Día, 13 June 1943
46. Las Novedades, 20, 21 June 1943
47. Ahorra, 22 June 1943
48. Las Novedades, 27 June 1943
49. El Avance, 9 July 1943
50. Inter-American Monthly, August 1943, 5
51. quoted in Jones, "The Government Riots," 39