?The Zoot Suit Riots:
War Hysteria, Race Riot, or Both??
Alex Saragoza
University of California, Berkeley

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Alex Saragoza link received his Ph.D. in Latin American history from University of California, San Diego. A specialist on modern Mexico. Saragoza's work delves into the intersections of Latin American history with that of the United States as a consequence of migration.interlocked histories of American nation states.

RELATED WEBSITES

• Zoot Suit : Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit
  
  
• Zoot Suit Riots - Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots
  
  
• PBS > American Experience > Zoot Suit Riots
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/
  
  
• Zoot Suit Movie by Luis Valdez > Pt 2
  (see 4 minutes into the clip)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03_pN66LDs
  
  
• A list of newspaper articles written about the Zoot Suit Riots.
  http://web.viu.ca/davies/H324War
  /Zootsuit.riots.media.1943.htm
  
  
• Images and primary source documents about the Zoot Suit Riots, from the University of California
  http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
  browse/keyword/%22Zoot+Suit+Riots%22