'21 Favorite: Zoot Suit Riots (1943) w/ Emily Spivack
This Day
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The Violence of This Moment
The violence of this moment is not just about causing harm, it's also about humiliation. By stripping some one down, taking their pants, taking their clothes, having them sit in the middle of the street in their undergarments, to gawk at them and to laugh at them, it's an expose. Ah, however you want to sor tof categorize it, that's how letino men are seen in this moment. Uh. This is really important, because one of the elements of this story that you mention in the introjode is the way that the press helped to stoke some of this sentiment"
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