I am African American. My daughter is half Mexican. Unfortunately, her father is not involved but I teach her her beautiful culture, including this history. I absolutely adore Mexican culture and history. Mexicanos have experienced many of the same discriminations as black people. It's truly heartbreaking but I hope black and brown can become more aware of this history that this country would rather remain unknown. Brown and Black love and unity. 🤎🖤🇲🇽
Pachucos were gang members so nothing good about this behavior. Trying the pachuco style to Mexican culture is like tying the crips and bloods and labeling it as black culture.
Mexicans and afromericans are not a monolith. The struggle of native people and that of the afromericans are totally different so it can be offensive to even imply they are similar. It was also left out that many afromericans willfully participated in the attacks against pachucos due to their bigotry and antimexican sentiment against mexicans. This hate and racism from blacs is evident even today as afromericans continually attack vendors, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. They are practicaly free to practice their racism and hate crimes against the mexican community with impunity due to being a privileged group politically protected by the system
Thank you for being a great mother and yes our black sister and bros and Mexicans were once kept out of public places and labeled as dogs smh..... we are the same the only things that seperate us is the different shades of brown.
I’m Russian and I adore and appreciate this style and history . It’s simply beautiful. The time and effort in everything. From the makeup, hairstyle, suits, cars, music, dancing. Love it
Glad to see Black Americans in Harlem were given credit for the creation of the Zoot Suit. One of my favorite movies is Zoot Suit with Edward James Olmos. Everyone should see it
As an African-American woman in my mid 50s, I remember my great grandmother sitting me down as a child and telling me about plantation life. She was a child. It was the stories of beatings and lynchings that has stayed with me as an adult. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. First it was the pain of watching the exact same violation to humanity happen yet again. But then I heard the joy and pride for the culture and my tears then turned to tears of joy too! The days of waiting for permission to be myself are done!!!💚🤍❤✨🖤🖤🖤
Thank you for your service young man🥰🥰And yes let’s us Latinos be proud of our Mexican heritage🇲🇽🇲🇽 I grew up as a Chicana in the streets of Lomas De Oro and the Lowrider community in San Diego, CA🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🫶🫶🫶Till this day my husband of 48 years still owns two 48 Chevys which are parked in our home🇲🇽🇲🇽🫶🫶
In Mexico it got introduced by German Valdez “Tintan” who adopted Pachuco and made movies with the character, there is a Mexican band name Maldita Vecindad and also play dress as Pachucos
As a black man any discrimination against blacks need to stop in LA period cuz we are one people. In the 1950s, a plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, paying tribute to the 11 families who founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, after a long trek north from Mexico. They were called pobladores, and more than half of them were black. Those early Angelenos of African descent had Spanish surnames, and their ethnicity would not have been known had the plaque not indicated it. The plaque soon vanished without a trace. Rumor had it that several Recreation and Parks commissioners had been displeased by its public display of the role blacks played in city’s founding. More than 20 years later, another plaque was put in the same spot. It honored the city’s founders without mentioning their race. Read More At Honoring L.A.'s Black Founders When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secularsettlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias[1] and the Instrucción) to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.[2]Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the pobladores was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish castas (castes). The castas of the 22 adult pobladores, according to the 1781 census, were: * 1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain) * 9 Indios (American Indians) * 1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) * 8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black) * 2 Negros (blacks of full Africanancestry) * 1 Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain) El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanishfor The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.[3] The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from New Spain, precisely, from the current Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, Spanish, and African descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society. * "Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles..."Los Pobladores 200 * Alarcón, Raúl. Los Californios:California's Spanish, Native American, and African Heritage. California Cultures Lesson Plan. Calisphere-University of California. * Jensen, Marilyn. "Los Pobladores Celebrate Their 200-Year California Heritage."Whittier Daily News. (March 24, 1982) at A. Anthony Leon V: Descendant of a Los Angeles Settler. * Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag: Spain's New World. Burbank: Southern✅
Wow! I feel deep sorrow for what the ancestors of all different cultures had to endure and deep pride for the acknowledgement of culture preserved. There's so much to learn and appreciate! I didn't know that women also wore the zoot suit!! We can still learn so much more from one another while yet preserving our own culture, history, and legacy! God loves us all, and we can love one another. Thank you for posting this on UA-cam!! ♥
Que hermosa es nuestra cultura Mexicana/chicana/ pachucos yo creci en USA desde los 8 años y nunca se me olvidaron mis raizes y gran orgullo de ser Mexicana, los pachucos igual nos representan en todo, guerrilleros, luchadores, grandes lideres, fuertes, persistentes y aparte crearon este estilo clasico, de high class dress citicens, que bonito la neta. ❤
@@sergiobustos2022 Either way, it was Black American Harlem Jazz Culture of the 1930's that came up with Zoot Suits. What other culture would popularize such suits but Black Americans?.
How phenomenal and lovely history regarding the legacy of the Pachucos! Beyond extraordinary, thanks for sharing and educating new generations regarding all the struggles back the horrific riots in the 40's.
Wow! As a 3rd Generation Mexican American, watching this and learning more about the history, and learning about the woman business owner is soo inspiring!!! Gracias! Que viva La Raza y la cultura de Los Pachucos y Las Pachucas!!! ✊🏾🇲🇽🇺🇸
I am a man of Swedish heritage. When I was in the Maricopa County Jail (18 years old) for a minor charge.It was the Pachucos that looked out for me. They were surprised I spoke Spanish. They called me "primo". RESPETO!.
I first heard of this fashions at school first year FLDM Los Angeles fashion history - Than in the 90's I used to work at SHAKERAG a vintage store, we carry gabardine and amazing 1900's to 1950's clothes, I had Brian Seltzer from the STRAY CATS have him helped him for his concert at the symphony and he heard i was the person to look in downtown San Diego - I always loved this era and it is sad only until the internet stories of our past is coming out. GOD BLESS THOSE PACHUCOS Y VIVA LA RAZA!
Ive always been drawn to the zoot suit era, as I remember watching old footage of Cab Calloway and always thought that era was the absolute coolest style both fashionably and musically! So coming across this video and tying it into the hispanic culture is so 🔥! Especially being born and raised in Southern Cali. 🎉🎉💃🏾
Zoot suit culture is originally Black American culture so you and there's really no tying it to Hispanic culture without being honest about where it comes from then it becomes very fraudulent
@Achikatzin1519 White people were not too keen on this particular suit, initially. It actually does trace back to African Americans. They even mentioned it in this video. Harold C. Fox was a musician and while on tour on the east coast he was inspired by Black kids wearing oversized tuxedos. After his tour he went back home to Chicago and created the first Zoot suit at his fathers place. Initially worn by Black people on the east coast it was later adopted by Mexican (Pachucos), Pilipino, and Japanese people. Unfortunately, most of the White people considered the young people wearing those suits gang members so much so that a bunch of them rioted and attacked the mostly Mexican zoot suit wearers for a whole week in LA, later Philly and I believe Chicago or Detroit. It wasn't until later after jazz popularity had grown that younger White people came to admire the zoot suit and made it popular among White people, subsequently erasing some of the history behind it.
They failed to get deep into diversity of culture of why, Black's had to create their Own Personal Style of Suit as: I am just appreciative that after, so many years of being degraded and segregated that, they finally have apologized.
I love this. The different traditions of ALL the different races and cultures that are represented in America. This is what our nation is. I love America! If we could all just accept our differences and love each other! Don’t be afraid of the differences. Embrace them
They forgot the history a little bit. The Pachuco style came from El Paso Texas that’s why this town is known as “Chuco Town”. Tin Tan the famous Pachuco actor from Mexico was from El Paso.
Yes Sir most people give credit to LA but it started in El Paso like you said on chuco street they would say a donde vas voy pa chuco that’s where it started
West Texas knows where the Pachucos started alot of Tejanos were in Cali because of they joined the Marines for the War.. but yes started in EL PASO TEJAS
Apparently according to the news the blacks made it trendy first. LA is responsible for the cholo. But el chuco is where the pachuco style started for the raza
As a history teacher, I commend the thoroughness and accuracy of this presentation. So many people don’t realize or acknowledge that the zoom suit culture started in Harlem. Google Cab Calloway to see one of the great band leaders who popularized the look. But in LA, the look was definitely most associated with the Mexican American community and they took it to a whole new cultural level. It’s not hard to imagine that if this were a trend starting out today, the ultranationalists on the Right would demean it as devisive and unAmerican. Just like they did in the 1940s.
German Valdes better known as Tin Tan personified the Pachuco. He was born in Mexico City but grew up in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua across the border from El Paso, Texas better known as El Chuco. The Pachuco scene started in El, Paso, Texas and that is why El Paso is known as El Chuco. Tin Tan incorporated this scene into his movies.
I listened to a salsa song back in the 90s and the singer hollered out 'Pachuco!" at some point. The word and its origin has always been fascinating to me.
My grandmother had pictures of my mother and her cousins dressed in Zoot Suit. I was told the style came from New York. The Blacks started wearing the style in Los Angeles and the Latino teens started wearing these suits.
Fabulous story. So happy to learn of another culture (Iam African-America). This video is a prime example of why I think this notion of cultural appropriation is a little absurd because cultures have influenced each other since the begining of time.
Our Chicano Culture is beautiful. Chicano stands for Child of a Mexicano. They took the first three letters Chi and the last three letters cano and combined to make Chicano.
My grandparents moved to LA when this was still the style of the times. Happy to see it making a comeback. Hopefully swing dance come back with it. Personally, I like the clothing styles of roaring 20's, (not necessarily flapper dresses) but the general clothing of the period.
As a black man many don’t know the history of LAs history. In the 1950s, a plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, paying tribute to the 11 families who founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, after a long trek north from Mexico. They were called pobladores, and more than half of them were black. Those early Angelenos of African descent had Spanish surnames, and their ethnicity would not have been known had the plaque not indicated it. The plaque soon vanished without a trace. Rumor had it that several Recreation and Parks commissioners had been displeased by its public display of the role blacks played in city’s founding. More than 20 years later, another plaque was put in the same spot. It honored the city’s founders without mentioning their race. Read More At Honoring L.A.'s Black Founders When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secularsettlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias[1] and the Instrucción) to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.[2]Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the pobladores was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish castas (castes). The castas of the 22 adult pobladores, according to the 1781 census, were: * 1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain) * 9 Indios (American Indians) * 1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) * 8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black) * 2 Negros (blacks of full Africanancestry) * 1 Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain) El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanishfor The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.[3] The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from New Spain, precisely, from the current Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, Spanish, and African descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society. * "Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles..."Los Pobladores 200 * Alarcón, Raúl. Los Californios:California's Spanish, Native American, and African Heritage. California Cultures Lesson Plan. Calisphere-University of California. * Jensen, Marilyn. "Los Pobladores Celebrate Their 200-Year California Heritage."Whittier Daily News. (March 24, 1982) at A. Anthony Leon V: Descendant of a Los Angeles Settler. * Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag: Spain's New World. Burbank: Southern✅✅
Ricky Riccardo on the I Love Lucy show and Denzel Washington wore that in the movie Malcolm X. I love to learn the real history when it told by the people who tell their own stories ❤!!! Thank You! Let be opened to learn the true value of telling your own stories to learn from others cultures not to be closed minded what the Gringo(white man) tell us about others cultures. Thank You for Sharing your experiences! ❤
Now when I here the song "Zoot Suit Riot" I really understand where the title came from but never knew the history until now,my mind is blown!!!! This was awesome love the style and the culture even my favorite group Dr Buzzards Original Savanah Band rock the style,beautiful segmant!!!!
Janet Jackson’s video for the song “Alright”brought this style to my attention at this song release. I was around 12 years old. Awesome legacy of a heritage to keep alive.
I love how he wasnt raised in the immenive culture that he discovered was his ancestral heritage. And then he dove into it and was like "this culture is being revived with me." As a Northerner whose family has heritage to the irish, and the dutch at the founding of Mew Amsterdam i really feel that. My family definitely washed our history the past couple generations. But i know my grandfather used to play the accordion. What a shocker
I am 57 but remember being a small child on LA listening to a few aunts and uncles talking about being in the LA zoom suit wars as they called them. I’ve seen awesome black and white photos of them too!!!! One of my uncles wore a rifle in his pant leg when in downtown LA AS A ZOOT SUITER!
The history is there, you just have to pay attention. For example, there is the song “Zootsuit Riot” by Cherrin, Poppin’ Daddies that speaks about the Zootzuit Riots in LA. Also, Jim Cary in the movie the Mask wears a yellow zootsuit and dances to “Hey Pachuco.” I am Mexican, born and raised in LA, and majored in Ethnic Studies. So, I know a lot of history of various ethnicities and cultures, but I agree, these things are not taught in schools, but I dont think it’s the US trying to erase what happened, but more so that the focus is on english and math. So, with that being said, most kids don’t get history until later on, and even then, it’s only the surface of world history, US history (the 13 colonies, and the presidents) and government. There is just SO much history out there; it took me years of college, and I still dont think I have a grasp of it all. What I recommend is to stop, look around and listen. LA has such beautiful murals that do a wonderful job of representing our history. For example there is a wonderful mural on the East West Bank wall on Daily St. and N. Broadway and various others, but people just walk on by and don’t even understand their importance. Listen to the elderly and their stories. Take time to smell the roses and you’ll see it isn’t lost. I’m very proud of these people preserving history.
Growing up mixed in LA, i was enamoured with the harlem Renaissance and wanted to learn about the pachucos and the Zoot Suit Riot. Hope this has resources so i can look up more info, particularly ethnography/ interviews!!!!
Great story! I have lived in So Cal, San Diego and around LA, as well . While the Pachuco culture is not my history, I celebrate the communities that are reclaiming theirs.
I love and respect Latin/Chicano culture and support and enjoy celebrating it always, however, for clarification, the Zoot suit originated with African-Americans in the 1920's of which other groups later adopted, just like our music Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Bluegrass, Folk, Soul, Funk, Reggae, R&B, Hip Hop, Afro-Cuban styles (Salsa, Mambo, Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha..) etc.
Everyone loves Black culture but have no love or respect for Black people which is why they steal our culture then claim it for themselves and will argue that it's not ours only theirs
The Pachuco style of dressing for the men was borrowed by the black american community. This type of black anerican style stems from the Jazz "Hep" era from the 1940's.
I remember the cartoons as a kid seeing black crows characters in zoot suits talking slangs representing blacks. Mexicans people took that and made it their own. Both cultures been intertwined since the Nahau/Olmecs. Popol Vuh states; The Quiche traditional history begins with a colony that came across the sea from where the sun sets (west), and the first location after their arrival in America, according to the Popol Vuh, was called Xibalba, pronounced Zabalba… This colony (either Malayans, Mongoloids or both) from the west crossed the Pacific Ocean, landed near the place where they built their first city, and called it Xibalba… The Olmecs and the Quinames came from where the sun rises (east), and according to Indian traditions they all came in vessels… The Quinames, the traditions say, came in seven barks or ships; there were seven families… They landed at Panuco… The Olmecs and the Xicalancas came from the east and landed first just below Vera Cruz, then sailing again, they landed at Laguna de Terminos… This colony from the east crossed the Atlantic Ocean… This is recorded in the Popol-Vuh, the Quiche history… As a black man many don’t know the history of LAs history. In the 1950s, a plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, paying tribute to the 11 families who founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, after a long trek north from Mexico. They were called pobladores, and more than half of them were black. Those early Angelenos of African descent had Spanish surnames, and their ethnicity would not have been known had the plaque not indicated it. The plaque soon vanished without a trace. Rumor had it that several Recreation and Parks commissioners had been displeased by its public display of the role blacks played in city’s founding. More than 20 years later, another plaque was put in the same spot. It honored the city’s founders without mentioning their race. Read More At Honoring L.A.'s Black Founders When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secularsettlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias[1] and the Instrucción) to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.[2]Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the pobladores was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish castas (castes). The castas of the 22 adult pobladores, according to the 1781 census, were: * 1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain) * 9 Indios (American Indians) * 1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) * 8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black) * 2 Negros (blacks of full Africanancestry) * 1 Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain) El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanishfor The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.[3] The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from New Spain, precisely, from the current Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, Spanish, and African descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society. * "Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles..."Los Pobladores 200 * Alarcón, Raúl. Los Californios:California's Spanish, Native American, and African Heritage. California Cultures Lesson Plan. Calisphere-University of California. * Jensen, Marilyn. "Los Pobladores Celebrate Their 200-Year California Heritage."Whittier Daily News. (March 24, 1982) at A. Anthony Leon V: Descendant of a Los Angeles Settler. * Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag: Spain's New World. Burbank: Southerndone 🤔✅
I am African American. My daughter is half Mexican. Unfortunately, her father is not involved but I teach her her beautiful culture, including this history. I absolutely adore Mexican culture and history. Mexicanos have experienced many of the same discriminations as black people. It's truly heartbreaking but I hope black and brown can become more aware of this history that this country would rather remain unknown. Brown and Black love and unity. 🤎🖤🇲🇽
Pachucos were gang members so nothing good about this behavior. Trying the pachuco style to Mexican culture is like tying the crips and bloods and labeling it as black culture.
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Mexicans and afromericans are not a monolith. The struggle of native people and that of the afromericans are totally different so it can be offensive to even imply they are similar.
It was also left out that many afromericans willfully participated in the attacks against pachucos due to their bigotry and antimexican sentiment against mexicans.
This hate and racism from blacs is evident even today as afromericans continually attack vendors, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. They are practicaly free to practice their racism and hate crimes against the mexican community with impunity due to being a privileged group politically protected by the system
Thank you for being a great mother and yes our black sister and bros and Mexicans were once kept out of public places and labeled as dogs smh..... we are the same the only things that seperate us is the different shades of brown.
I’m Russian and I adore and appreciate this style and history . It’s simply beautiful. The time and effort in everything. From the makeup, hairstyle, suits, cars, music, dancing. Love it
My gramps used to rock these when he was young! He looked so dope
So cool 🫶
It sucks we can't share photos on here. But how fortunate you are to have them ❤
So chunti
Glad to see Black Americans in Harlem were given credit for the creation of the Zoot Suit. One of my favorite movies is Zoot Suit with Edward James Olmos. Everyone should see it
I've attended old school parties in NYC in which the brothers would wear zoot suits it's so cool and they danced in a vintage style.
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IT WAS INVENTED BY A FRENCH MAN....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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ITS INSANE THAT NOBODY MENTIONS THAT THIS WAS INVENTED BY SOME WHTE DUDE IN EUROPE....
@@Myopinionmattersthemostdo you mean American Me?
I’m from Chihuahua and we have Pachucos especially in Juarez.
Makes me super happy!😃
Ya llegó su pachucote!!!!
El termino "Pachuco" fue inventado en Chihuahua
As an African-American woman in my mid 50s, I remember my great grandmother sitting me down as a child and telling me about plantation life. She was a child. It was the stories of beatings and lynchings that has stayed with me as an adult. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. First it was the pain of watching the exact same violation to humanity happen yet again. But then I heard the joy and pride for the culture and my tears then turned to tears of joy too! The days of waiting for permission to be myself are done!!!💚🤍❤✨🖤🖤🖤
Thank you so much for your comment I think the whole world of it
Beautiful, I love when Americans express their individual cultures to the fullest!
It started with Black Americans everyone copied after that!
If I'm not wrong, it was Tin Tan, a great Mexican actor who took this incredible culture staple to Mexico. Fashion as a rebellious statement. A huevo.
Puro Juaritos! 🤘🏽
Love Tin Tan
Thank you for your service young man🥰🥰And yes let’s us Latinos be proud of our Mexican heritage🇲🇽🇲🇽 I grew up as a Chicana in the streets of Lomas De Oro and the Lowrider community in San Diego, CA🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🫶🫶🫶Till this day my husband of 48 years still owns two 48 Chevys which are parked in our home🇲🇽🇲🇽🫶🫶
In Mexico it got introduced by German Valdez “Tintan” who adopted Pachuco and made movies with the character, there is a Mexican band name Maldita Vecindad and also play dress as Pachucos
banda pachuco too
I grew up watching old tintan🫡 he had the moves
Yo waddup, my names Irvin lmao
Arriba Juarez!
Garcia Brothers is a Pachuco Tex Mex band
I am Puerto Rican and I did not know the history of the Zoot Suit, thanks for informing us.
Bendiciones Boricua! 🌹💕🙏
As a black man any discrimination against blacks need to stop in LA period cuz we are one people.
In the 1950s, a plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, paying tribute to the 11 families who founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, after a long trek north from Mexico. They were called pobladores, and more than half of them were black. Those early Angelenos of African descent had Spanish surnames, and their ethnicity would not have been known had the plaque not indicated it.
The plaque soon vanished without a trace.
Rumor had it that several Recreation and Parks commissioners had been displeased by its public display of the role blacks played in city’s founding.
More than 20 years later, another plaque was put in the same spot. It honored the city’s founders without mentioning their race.
Read More At Honoring L.A.'s Black Founders
When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secularsettlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias[1] and the Instrucción) to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.[2]Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the pobladores was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish castas (castes).
The castas of the 22 adult pobladores, according to the 1781 census, were:
* 1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain)
* 9 Indios (American Indians)
* 1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian)
* 8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black)
* 2 Negros (blacks of full Africanancestry)
* 1 Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain)
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanishfor The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.[3]
The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from New Spain, precisely, from the current Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, Spanish, and African descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society.
* "Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles..."Los Pobladores 200
* Alarcón, Raúl. Los Californios:California's Spanish, Native American, and African Heritage. California Cultures Lesson Plan. Calisphere-University of California.
* Jensen, Marilyn. "Los Pobladores Celebrate Their 200-Year California Heritage."Whittier Daily News. (March 24, 1982) at A. Anthony Leon V: Descendant of a Los Angeles Settler.
* Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag: Spain's New World. Burbank: Southern✅
Thank you for opening my eyes with this history
Both men and women look fabulous. I also love the cars! ❤
Tin Tan was the champion of the Pachuco. One of the greatest Mexican funny and serious actors.Greetings from Puerto Rico.viva Mexico
A huevo!
Awesome, From California to New York City Much Love, Orale..
He said "que vivan los pachucos!!" I got chills 😎 ❤❤
My grandmother born in 1912 -used to talk about this as I was child growing up
Wow! I feel deep sorrow for what the ancestors of all different cultures had to endure and deep pride for the acknowledgement of culture preserved. There's so much to learn and appreciate! I didn't know that women also wore the zoot suit!! We can still learn so much more from one another while yet preserving our own culture, history, and legacy! God loves us all, and we can love one another. Thank you for posting this on UA-cam!! ♥
The urge to have a zoot suit-themed wedding
Que hermosa es nuestra cultura Mexicana/chicana/ pachucos yo creci en USA desde los 8 años y nunca se me olvidaron mis raizes y gran orgullo de ser Mexicana, los pachucos igual nos representan en todo, guerrilleros, luchadores, grandes lideres, fuertes, persistentes y aparte crearon este estilo clasico, de high class dress citicens, que bonito la neta. ❤
Zoot suits, Pachuco/Pachuca, Chollo/Cholla will never go outta style. This is an awesome report for Hispanic/Latino Heritage month ❤❤
No it's Mexicano history thank you!!👍🏼😉
@@sergiobustos2022what’s the difference respectfully?
@@sergiobustos2022
Either way, it was Black American Harlem Jazz Culture of the 1930's that came up with Zoot Suits.
What other culture would popularize such suits but Black Americans?.
Jim Carrey in the Mask = zootsuit
HEY PACHUCO!
How phenomenal and lovely history regarding the legacy of the Pachucos!
Beyond extraordinary, thanks for sharing and educating new generations regarding all the struggles back the horrific riots in the 40's.
Wow! As a 3rd Generation Mexican American, watching this and learning more about the history, and learning about the woman business owner is soo inspiring!!! Gracias! Que viva La Raza y la cultura de Los Pachucos y Las Pachucas!!! ✊🏾🇲🇽🇺🇸
I am a man of Swedish heritage. When I was in the Maricopa County Jail (18 years old) for a minor charge.It was the Pachucos that looked out for me. They were surprised I spoke Spanish. They called me "primo". RESPETO!.
I am from Compton Cali. I'm 66. And I have always loved the zoot suits, and always will. I always feel so proud of my raza.
I first heard of this fashions at school first year FLDM Los Angeles fashion history - Than in the 90's I used to work at SHAKERAG a vintage store, we carry gabardine and amazing 1900's to 1950's clothes, I had Brian Seltzer from the STRAY CATS have him helped him for his concert at the symphony and he heard i was the person to look in downtown San Diego - I always loved this era and it is sad only until the internet stories of our past is coming out. GOD BLESS THOSE PACHUCOS Y VIVA LA RAZA!
Old downtown LA market nice touch
Turning us against each other is such an evil thing to do. Thank you for this story❤
Ive always been drawn to the zoot suit era, as I remember watching old footage of Cab Calloway and always thought that era was the absolute coolest style both fashionably and musically! So coming across this video and tying it into the hispanic culture is so 🔥! Especially being born and raised in Southern Cali. 🎉🎉💃🏾
Zoot suit culture is originally Black American culture so you and there's really no tying it to Hispanic culture without being honest about where it comes from then it becomes very fraudulent
Thank you for bring the Latino LA culture to light …
How is it latino culture when it was copied off of Black Americans?????🤔🤫🫣
@Achikatzin1519 White people were not too keen on this particular suit, initially. It actually does trace back to African Americans. They even mentioned it in this video. Harold C. Fox was a musician and while on tour on the east coast he was inspired by Black kids wearing oversized tuxedos. After his tour he went back home to Chicago and created the first Zoot suit at his fathers place. Initially worn by Black people on the east coast it was later adopted by Mexican (Pachucos), Pilipino, and Japanese people. Unfortunately, most of the White people considered the young people wearing those suits gang members so much so that a bunch of them rioted and attacked the mostly Mexican zoot suit wearers for a whole week in LA, later Philly and I believe Chicago or Detroit. It wasn't until later after jazz popularity had grown that younger White people came to admire the zoot suit and made it popular among White people, subsequently erasing some of the history behind it.
You should check Thomas Sowell on the origins of black culture.
Not Uncle Thomas
They failed to get deep into diversity of culture of why, Black's had to create their Own Personal Style of Suit as: I am just appreciative that after, so many years of being degraded and segregated that, they finally have apologized.
I was waiting if someone would tell the original zoot suits out of Harlem Jazz culture.
Zoot suits were not invented by black people, and the jazz musicians were them after the fact that white men created it get you history right
U.S. citizen who immigrated to Mexico two years ago, we frequently see pachucos downtown, love their style and their culture:)
American* and pls renounce
Thanks for sharing. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you, for bringing it out into the light!
I've always heard about the Pachucos but didn't know the history. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from South Texas.
Luv it! I grew up watching Tintan & all his mastery. It opened my eyes to my rich heritage.❤️🔥
I love this. The different traditions of ALL the different races and cultures that are represented in America. This is what our nation is. I love America! If we could all just accept our differences and love each other! Don’t be afraid of the differences. Embrace them
One of my favorite events this past summer in DTLA. I enjoyed dancing in the streets with my fellow Angelenos. The culture is soo rich and vibrant!!!
Beautifully done and said truly appreciated. 🙏 blessings. 🙏
I remember the first time I saw a pachuco I thought he was the coolest guy ever
Gracias por tu servicio y el servicio de tu papá. Me encanta la cultura Pachuco-Pachuca y les mando abrazos - desde una Argentina en Filadelfia.
They forgot the history a little bit. The Pachuco style came from El Paso Texas that’s why this town is known as “Chuco Town”. Tin Tan the famous Pachuco actor from Mexico was from El Paso.
Yes Sir most people give credit to LA but it started in El Paso like you said on chuco street they would say a donde vas voy pa chuco that’s where it started
West Texas knows where the Pachucos started alot of Tejanos were in Cali because of they joined the Marines for the War.. but yes started in EL PASO TEJAS
@@texmex8815 I’m sure that we all know however the reporter needs more information
Artist:
Maldita Vencindad
Song: Pachuco
Go listen and you are welcome🫡
I first heard about the zoot suits when i was in high school. I was so fascinated! I’m 71 now so that was a long time ago.
Nothing to do with them
It was Black American Harlem Jazz Culture that popularized Zoot Suits during the 1930's. Well of course.
Yep
Different Harlem back then, would like to see it return.
@BobSmith-tv1bq
More adapted than "created".
Grew up with pachucos in Fort Worth Texas in the 80's. La Loma 84
Found memories 😊
🇨🇦🫶🏼 Canada here. Such a heart warming story. Never stop chasing your creativity. ❤
My grandfather was a pachuco, my dad would tell me stories and show me pictures. Our generation needs to learn our history.
So the birthplace of the Pachuco was in El Paso, Tx (El Chuco) in the 1940s & spread though the southwest up to LA.
Really 😅😅😅😅😅
Apparently according to the news the blacks made it trendy first. LA is responsible for the cholo. But el chuco is where the pachuco style started for the raza
Actually, Harlem Jazz renneasuance 1930.
@@MrMawuena75 white men made the zoot suit for jazz musicians to wear them clown
@calinsaner only in the east coast but not in the south or west coast mexicans popular that their not blacks
My great uncle was a Pacheco, my aunt inherited his Zoot Suit and kept it as a momentum on how much history his Zoot Suit has in the past.
Thank you for posting this
Que Vivan Los Chucos y Las Chucas..
🎩 Mucho Amor from TexMex ✌️
Beautiful Story. Gracias
"My blood is on those red stripes on the flag." Such a powerful statement that shows his frustration.
Watching this is so enlightening.
Thank you all.
🙏🏽💝🌎💝🙏🏽
As a history teacher, I commend the thoroughness and accuracy of this presentation. So many people don’t realize or acknowledge that the zoom suit culture started in Harlem. Google Cab Calloway to see one of the great band leaders who popularized the look. But in LA, the look was definitely most associated with the Mexican American community and they took it to a whole new cultural level. It’s not hard to imagine that if this were a trend starting out today, the ultranationalists on the Right would demean it as devisive and unAmerican. Just like they did in the 1940s.
Others are telling their stories. Embracing "roots" seems very healing. The city hall apology was so awesome and deserved.
A leftist tactic just to please emotional idiots. The pass is the pass what does my ancestors have to w their sins & me? Have u sin before?
German Valdes better known as Tin Tan personified the Pachuco. He was born in Mexico City but grew up in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua across the border from El Paso, Texas better known as El Chuco. The Pachuco scene started in El, Paso, Texas and that is why El Paso is known as El Chuco. Tin Tan incorporated this scene into his movies.
I Love This!Dressed to the nine…I love this story.❤
Those suits are Sharp.❤
Fabulous story told with great courage and boldness!! Fear of loss of power is dangerous. Day of Reckoning. Yes!!
Yes, read about the Casta system,, 1500s til 1900s
We are one!!
👏🏾👏🏼👏🏾
Santa Fe Swapmeet is Pachuco heaven and they have music every Sunday
I listened to a salsa song back in the 90s and the singer hollered out 'Pachuco!" at some point. The word and its origin has always been fascinating to me.
❤thank you for shedding a light on this portion of American history i knew nothing about 🤗💜💫
I Remember the Golden years.
My Father was a Pancho Back in the days.
I'm going to be the big 70 years
And that's my Theme
Ponchos Style Baby!!!!🎉
My grandmother had pictures of my mother and her cousins dressed in Zoot Suit. I was told the style came from New York. The Blacks started wearing the style in Los Angeles and the Latino teens started wearing these suits.
Beautiful culture. Keep it alive!
Fabulous story. So happy to learn of another culture (Iam African-America). This video is a prime example of why I think this notion of cultural appropriation is a little absurd because cultures have influenced each other since the begining of time.
Tin Tan is missing! He made a proud Pachuco in his movies, he was the hero as they were too. This should not be forgotten!
Our Chicano Culture is beautiful. Chicano stands for Child of a Mexicano. They took the first three letters Chi and the last three letters cano and combined to make Chicano.
My grandparents moved to LA when this was still the style of the times. Happy to see it making a comeback. Hopefully swing dance come back with it. Personally, I like the clothing styles of roaring 20's, (not necessarily flapper dresses) but the general clothing of the period.
It’s a Chicano thing simple as that… Mestizo blood.. Native Pride… I represent the people of the land not the invader of my people…
If you knew the true origin of where the label mestizo came from, you would identify by it. We're indigenous not Latino, Hispanic, much less mestizo.
As a black man many don’t know the history of LAs history.
In the 1950s, a plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, paying tribute to the 11 families who founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, after a long trek north from Mexico. They were called pobladores, and more than half of them were black. Those early Angelenos of African descent had Spanish surnames, and their ethnicity would not have been known had the plaque not indicated it.
The plaque soon vanished without a trace.
Rumor had it that several Recreation and Parks commissioners had been displeased by its public display of the role blacks played in city’s founding.
More than 20 years later, another plaque was put in the same spot. It honored the city’s founders without mentioning their race.
Read More At Honoring L.A.'s Black Founders
When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secularsettlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias[1] and the Instrucción) to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.[2]Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the pobladores was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish castas (castes).
The castas of the 22 adult pobladores, according to the 1781 census, were:
* 1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain)
* 9 Indios (American Indians)
* 1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian)
* 8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black)
* 2 Negros (blacks of full Africanancestry)
* 1 Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain)
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanishfor The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.[3]
The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from New Spain, precisely, from the current Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, Spanish, and African descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society.
* "Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles..."Los Pobladores 200
* Alarcón, Raúl. Los Californios:California's Spanish, Native American, and African Heritage. California Cultures Lesson Plan. Calisphere-University of California.
* Jensen, Marilyn. "Los Pobladores Celebrate Their 200-Year California Heritage."Whittier Daily News. (March 24, 1982) at A. Anthony Leon V: Descendant of a Los Angeles Settler.
* Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag: Spain's New World. Burbank: Southern✅✅
Ricky Riccardo on the I Love Lucy show and Denzel Washington wore that in the movie Malcolm X. I love to learn the real history when it told by the people who tell their own stories ❤!!! Thank You! Let be opened to learn the true value of telling your own stories to learn from others cultures not to be closed minded what the Gringo(white man) tell us about others cultures. Thank You for Sharing your experiences! ❤
I really like your mother-in laws blouse. It reminds me of Yucatan. Thank you for everything you guys are doing for us.
Thanks for sharing this 🫶
I’m in love with this
Now when I here the song "Zoot Suit Riot" I really understand where the title came from but never knew the history until now,my mind is blown!!!! This was awesome love the style and the culture even my favorite group Dr Buzzards Original Savanah Band rock the style,beautiful segmant!!!!
Janet Jackson’s video for the song “Alright”brought this style to my attention at this song release. I was around 12 years old. Awesome legacy of a heritage to keep alive.
This is the coolest thing! Love it!!!
My love to Mexico and its people❤
I love how he wasnt raised in the immenive culture that he discovered was his ancestral heritage. And then he dove into it and was like "this culture is being revived with me." As a Northerner whose family has heritage to the irish, and the dutch at the founding of Mew Amsterdam i really feel that. My family definitely washed our history the past couple generations. But i know my grandfather used to play the accordion. What a shocker
ZOOT SUITS ROCK !! THEY ARE CLASSY LOOKING AND APPEAR COMFORTABLE !! LONG LIVE ZOOT SUITS !!
How did I not know this history? I’ve always loved the look of zoot suits. Thanks for the story!
Pura onda estilo Pachuco!
I am 57 but remember being a small child on LA listening to a few aunts and uncles talking about being in the LA zoom suit wars as they called them. I’ve seen awesome black and white photos of them too!!!! One of my uncles wore a rifle in his pant leg when in downtown LA AS A ZOOT SUITER!
Bravo excellent history lesson!!!
The history is there, you just have to pay attention. For example, there is the song “Zootsuit Riot” by Cherrin, Poppin’ Daddies that speaks about the Zootzuit Riots in LA. Also, Jim Cary in the movie the Mask wears a yellow zootsuit and dances to “Hey Pachuco.” I am Mexican, born and raised in LA, and majored in Ethnic Studies. So, I know a lot of history of various ethnicities and cultures, but I agree, these things are not taught in schools, but I dont think it’s the US trying to erase what happened, but more so that the focus is on english and math. So, with that being said, most kids don’t get history until later on, and even then, it’s only the surface of world history, US history (the 13 colonies, and the presidents) and government. There is just SO much history out there; it took me years of college, and I still dont think I have a grasp of it all. What I recommend is to stop, look around and listen. LA has such beautiful murals that do a wonderful job of representing our history. For example there is a wonderful mural on the East West Bank wall on Daily St. and N. Broadway and various others, but people just walk on by and don’t even understand their importance. Listen to the elderly and their stories. Take time to smell the roses and you’ll see it isn’t lost. I’m very proud of these people preserving history.
Beautiful story! It is amazing how this stories are not in the history book. Thank God someone brought this out for our knowledge. ❤
Growing up mixed in LA, i was enamoured with the harlem Renaissance and wanted to learn about the pachucos and the Zoot Suit Riot.
Hope this has resources so i can look up more info, particularly ethnography/ interviews!!!!
Great story! I have lived in So Cal, San Diego and around LA, as well . While the Pachuco culture is not my history, I celebrate the communities that are reclaiming theirs.
I see this and I think of the Mask going let's rock this joint and then the song Hay Pachuco! starts to play.
This is The Life in History that should not go away,This is The Pachuco
Right for the Family in the future the clothes.❤️👍🏽✌🏽
Es mi raza!!! Viva los Pachucos y Pachucas ❤🎉
Thank you Kevin 11:06 we love you! ❤
Semper Fi Brother
I love and respect Latin/Chicano culture and support and enjoy celebrating it always, however, for clarification, the Zoot suit originated with African-Americans in the 1920's of which other groups later adopted, just like our music Jazz, Blues, Rock n Roll, Bluegrass, Folk, Soul, Funk, Reggae, R&B, Hip Hop, Afro-Cuban styles (Salsa, Mambo, Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha..) etc.
Everyone loves Black culture but have no love or respect for Black people which is why they steal our culture then claim it for themselves and will argue that it's not ours only theirs
The Pachuco style of dressing for the men was borrowed by the black american community. This type of black anerican style stems from the Jazz "Hep" era from the 1940's.
I remember the cartoons as a kid seeing black crows characters in zoot suits talking slangs representing blacks.
Mexicans people took that and made it their own. Both cultures been intertwined since the Nahau/Olmecs. Popol Vuh states; The Quiche traditional history begins with a colony that came across the sea from where the sun sets (west), and the first location after their arrival in America, according to the Popol Vuh, was called Xibalba, pronounced Zabalba…
This colony (either Malayans, Mongoloids or both) from the west crossed the Pacific Ocean, landed near the place where they built their first city, and called it Xibalba…
The Olmecs and the Quinames came from where the sun rises (east), and according to Indian traditions they all came in vessels…
The Quinames, the traditions say, came in seven barks or ships; there were seven families…
They landed at Panuco…
The Olmecs and the Xicalancas came from the east and landed first just below Vera Cruz, then sailing again, they landed at Laguna de Terminos…
This colony from the east crossed the Atlantic Ocean…
This is recorded in the Popol-Vuh, the Quiche history… As a black man many don’t know the history of LAs history.
In the 1950s, a plaque was installed in El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park, paying tribute to the 11 families who founded Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781, after a long trek north from Mexico. They were called pobladores, and more than half of them were black. Those early Angelenos of African descent had Spanish surnames, and their ethnicity would not have been known had the plaque not indicated it.
The plaque soon vanished without a trace.
Rumor had it that several Recreation and Parks commissioners had been displeased by its public display of the role blacks played in city’s founding.
More than 20 years later, another plaque was put in the same spot. It honored the city’s founders without mentioning their race.
Read More At Honoring L.A.'s Black Founders
When the Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, was assigned to establish secularsettlements in what is now the state of California (after more than a decade of missionary work among the natives), he commissioned a complete set of maps and plans (the Reglamento para el gobierno de la Provincia de Californias[1] and the Instrucción) to be drawn up for the design and colonization of the new pueblo.[2]Finding the individuals to actually do the work of building and living in the city proved to be a more daunting task. Neve finally located the new and willing dwellers in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico. But gathering the pobladores was a little more difficult. The original party of the new townsfolk consisted of eleven families, that is 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children of various Spanish castas (castes).
The castas of the 22 adult pobladores, according to the 1781 census, were:
* 1 Criollo (Spaniard born in New Spain)
* 9 Indios (American Indians)
* 1 Mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian)
* 8 Mulattos (mixed Spanish and black)
* 2 Negros (blacks of full Africanancestry)
* 1 Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain)
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, (Spanishfor The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels) is the original, official long version of the name of the town founded by the Pobladores.[3]
The earliest Hispanic settlers of all of California, not just Los Angeles, were almost exclusively from New Spain, precisely, from the current Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora. The author and historian, Dr. Antonio Ríos-Bustamante, has written that "the original settlers of Los Angeles were racially mixed persons of Indian, Spanish, and African descent. This mixed racial composition was typical of both the settlers of Alta California and of the majority of the population of the northwest coast provinces of Mexico from which they were recruited." Dr. Ríos-Bustamante relates that in the century preceding the founding expedition of 1781, many Indians in this region of Mexico had been "culturally assimilated and ethnically intermixed into the Spanish-speaking, mestizo society.
* "Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles..."Los Pobladores 200
* Alarcón, Raúl. Los Californios:California's Spanish, Native American, and African Heritage. California Cultures Lesson Plan. Calisphere-University of California.
* Jensen, Marilyn. "Los Pobladores Celebrate Their 200-Year California Heritage."Whittier Daily News. (March 24, 1982) at A. Anthony Leon V: Descendant of a Los Angeles Settler.
* Mason, William M. Los Angeles Under the Spanish Flag: Spain's New World. Burbank: Southerndone 🤔✅
@@CurveBall-n9jwhat you mean barrowed by they have been wearing it since the 1930s black American jazz culture
@@dGuthrie1-hc2rx
I’m talking bout Hispanics borrowed copied whatever you want to call it
I’m Mexican-Chicana and I didn’t know the story behind the zoot suit at all but absolutely love it.
Very informative segment
She's beautiful ❤️