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

Escobedo, Elizabeth R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469602059 ISBN 13: 9781469602059

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

Synopsis

Title: From Coveralls to Zoot Suits( The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front) Binding: Hardcover Author: ElizabethRachelEscobedo Publisher: UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress

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Book Description:

"Drawing on an impressive range of archival sources, oral narratives, and historiography, Elizabeth Escobedo draws you into the social worlds of young Mexican American women, especially those who were Rosie the Riveters by day and pachucas by night. Intelligent and captivating, this superb study significantly advances our understanding of Mexican American women during and after World War II."--Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1469602059
• ISBN 13: 9781469602059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256