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Fear, hatred, or dislike of people who are perceived to be “foreign strangers” or threats to the nation, often times due to their race, ethnicity, and/or culture.

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The power or act of refusing to accept social injustice (challenge, oppose, struggle, rise, stand up to)

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The power or ability to overcome adversity (persistence, strength, recovery, grit)

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The power or creativity to imagine again, over, or anew (rethink, recreate, reinvent)

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*stereotyping, *dehumanization
*dominant normativity
*assimilation

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*news and media
*policing

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*expansion of prisons and immigrant detention centers
*disproportionate incarceration of people of color

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“The Pachuco Style was an act in Life and his language a new creation. His will to be was an awesome force eluding all documentation” (25).

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“Death Awakens Sleepy Lagoon. LA Shaken by Lurid ‘Kid’ Murder” (28). 

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“Death Awakens Sleepy Lagoon. LA Shaken by Lurid ‘Kid’ Murder” (28). 

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“You’re Henry Reyna, ese--Hank Reyna! The snarling juvenile delinquent. The zootsuiter. The bitter young pachuco gang leader of 38th St. That’s what they’ve got on you” (29).

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“Alright, muchacho, it’s just you and me now. I hear you pachucos wear these monkey suits as a kind or armor. Is that right? How’s it work? This is what you zooters need— a little old fashioned discipline.”

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" Zoot-suited goons! I knew it was coming. Every time the D.A. farts, they throw us in the can."

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" Zoot-suited goons! I knew it was coming. Every time the D.A. farts, they throw us in the can."

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"Didn't I help you set up the youth club?"
"They turned it into a gang Lieutenant. Everything they touch turns to shit"

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"Alright, muchacho, it’s just you and me now. I hear you pachucos wear these monkey suits as a kind or armor."

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¨The City´s cracking down on pachucos, carnal. Don´t you read the newspapers? They´re screaming for blood.¨

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"Because this aint your country. Look whats happening all around you. The Japs have sewed up the Pacific. Rommel is kicking ass in Egypt but the mayor of LA has declared all-out war on Chicanos. On you! ¿Te curas?"

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"What if I were to tell you that I had Spanish blood in my veins? That my roots go back to Spain, just like yours. What if im an Arab? What if I'm a Jew? What difference does it make? The question is, would you let me help you?"

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"EXTRA EXTRA! ZOOT-SUITED GOONS OF SLEEPY LAGOON!"
"EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT THE MEXICAN BABY GANGSTAS!"

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¨But you have been taken in for suspicion a dozen times, kept in jail for a few days, then released for lack of evidence. And it´s all stayed on your juvenile record.¨

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weren't allowed to get a haircut to look more like criminals

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"The zoot haircuts will be retained throughout the trial for purposes of identification of defendents by witnesses."

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"The zoot haircuts will be retained throughout the trial for purposes of identification of defendents by witnesses."

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When the defender of the trial states "if you find these young men guilty, you will find all of the American youth guilty"

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“ I haven’t felt like this since villa took zacatecas pero mira look who’s here mis hijos it isn’t every day a man has two grown sons come here from so far away , one from way and one from .. well who cares “

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“The police has arrested twenty-tow members of the 38th street gang, pending further investigation of various charges.”

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“Henry Reyna, Jose Castro, Thomas Roberts, Ismael Torres, and so forth. You have been tried by the jury of your peers and found guilty of murder in the first and second degrees.”

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They had to keep their suits on in order to make them look like criminals.

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“I am going to remand her to the custody of the Venture State School for a period of one year…” (Page 61) it’s odd how the girl who didn’t do anything and was just a witness gets a years worth sentence somewhere. Super messed up judicial system. —Jackson

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“Have you forgotten what happened at the trial? You think the Appeals Court is any different. Some Paddy judge sitting in the same judgement of your face.”

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“But you’ve seen me coming and going. Writing to you, speaking for you, traveling up and down the state. You must have known I was doing it for you. Nothing has come before my involvement, my attachment, my passion for this case. My boys have been everything to me.”

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"That's a lie and you know it. Thanks to your squealer friends, we've got enough dope to indict for murder now."

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a bunch of people wearing zoot suits are acused of murder with no hard evidence.

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¨what the hell do you care? You think your something special? Come on grease ball, Move!¨

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"That's a lie and you know it. Thanks to your squealer friends, we've got enough dope to indict for murder now." 

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"That's a lie and you know it. Thanks to your squealer friends, we've got enough dope to indict for murder now." 

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"Your Honor, I can only infer that the Prosecution...is trying to make these boys look disreputable, like mobsters."

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jasmine "we've got enough dope to indict for murder now".

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jasmine "we've got enough dope to indict for murder now".

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"you savages weren't even wearing clothes when the white men pulled you out of the jungle"

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the press distorted the very meaning of the word "zoot suit"

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¨listen kid your appeal stands out as much chance as the japs and the krauts of winning the war

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“Orale! They’re cops outside! They’re trying to arrest Joey...They got him against your car! They’re trying to say he stole it.”

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the last page. from Rudy to Pachuco

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¨ Yeah,Im a mexican¨. . .
¨Didn't I help you set up the youth club?"
"They turned it into a gang Lieutenant. Everything they touch turns to shit" (pg 6)

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¨Thanks to your squealer friends, we´ve got enough dope on you to indict for murder right now¨
¨Murder?¨
¨Yeah, murder another greaser named jose Williams¨ (pg. 7)

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¨forget it Lieutenant. You can´t treat these animals like people¨

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¨Extra! Extra! Read all about it. Special session of L.A County Grand Jury convenes.D.A Charges conspiracy in sleepy lagoon murder. Extraaa!¨ (pg. 10)

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¨Serves as a swimming hole for the younger Mexican kids¨
¨Because there not allowed to swim in the public plunges?¨ (pg.10)

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When the zoot suiters fight back against the police in the station.

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When all the teenagers were arrested without evidence

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"Forget it leiuteniant you cant treat these animals like humans." (Pg.7)

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"i tell you pachucos wear these monkey suits as a kind of armor"(32).

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"i tell you pachucos wear these monkey suits as a kind of armor"(32).

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jasmine