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From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front

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During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to Zoot Suits, Elizabeth R. Escobedo explores how, as war workers and volunteers, dance hostesses and zoot suiters, respectable young ladies and rebellious daughters, these young women used wartime conditions to serve the United States in its time of need and to pursue their own desires.
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Elizabeth Escobedo is assistant professor of history at the University of Denver.
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ISBN:
9781469602059
Subtitle:
The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
Author:
Escobedo, Elizabeth R.
Author:
Escobedo, Elizabeth
Author:
Escobedo, Elizabeth Rachel
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
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Mexican American women and defense work
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Mexican American women and wartime leisure
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Mexican Americans and Americans All
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Mexican American youth culture
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pachucas
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female zoot suiters
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Mexican American women and wartime employment
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Mexican American women and wartime labor
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Mexican American women and Second World War
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Mexican Americans as racially in-between
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Mexican American civil rights and World War II
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second-generation daughters and World War II
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Mexican Americans and the wartime state
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Mexican American women and the FEPC
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Committee on Fair Employment Practice
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Mexican American women and the wartime media
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Mexican American women and the Sleepy Lagoon case
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Mexican American women and the zoot suit
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Mexican American women and Douglas Aircraft in World War II
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Mexican Americans and the Office of War Information
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OWI
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Mexican Americans and the OCIAA
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Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
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Mexican Americans and the USO
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United Service Organizations
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Mexican American women and juvenile courts
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Mexican American women and labor unions in World War II
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Mexican American women and the Young Women s Christian Association
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YWCA
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Mexican American women and generational conflict
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Mexican American women riveters
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Mexican American women war workers
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Mexican American women wartime volunteers
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Mexican Americans and discrimination
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Mexican American women and chaperonage
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Mexican American women and fears of miscegenation
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oral histories of Mexican American women
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Senoritas USO
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Mexican American USO hostesses
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Mexican Americans and Los Angeles in World War II
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Mexican American women and the Zoot Suit Riots
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Mexican American women and juvenile delinquency
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Mexican American women and Cold War politics
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Mexican American women and civil rights
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Mexican American women and the postwar era
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Mexican American women and intermarriage
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Mexican American women and multiracial community organizing
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from coveralls to zoot suits
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elizabeth escobedo
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World History-General
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Mexican americans
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and discrimination
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Mexican
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American women and juvenile courts
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from coveralls to zoo
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t suits
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Mexican A
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merican women and defense work
Copyright:
2013
Publication Date:
20130321
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in
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