Zootsuit Riots, 1943	Library CSU Stanislaus

Background Reading

Cosgrove, Stuart. "The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare." Radical America 18(6):39-51, 1984.

Clark, Kenneth B. "The Zoot Effect in Personality: A Race Riot Participant." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 40:142-148, April 1945.

Dieppa, Ismael. "The Zoot-Suit Riots in Retrospect." La Luz 3(8):29-32, Nov. 1974.

Domer, Marilyn. The Zoot-Suit Riot: A Culmination of Social Tensions in Los Angeles. M.A. Thesis Claremont, 1955. F869.L857 D66x 1955

Endore, S. Guy. The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates, 1972. KF224.S49 E5 1972

Jones, Solomon James. The Government Riots of Los Angeles, June 1943. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates, 1973. F869.L857 J66 1973

McWilliams, Carey. "Second Thoughts." Nation 228(13):358, 1979.

Mazon, Mauricio. Social Upheaval in World War II: "Zoot-Suiters" and Servicemen in Los Angeles, 1943. Ph.D. Diss. UCLA. Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1977. F869.L89 M559x

Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot-Suit Riot: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1984. F869.L89 M56 1984

Shibley, George E. "Sleepy Lagoon: the True Story." New West 4:88, January 15, 1979.

Sine, Don Thomas. Zoot Suit Riots of Los Angeles, 1943: A New Perspective. M.A. Thesis CSU, Long Beach. Ann Arbor, MI: Xerox University Microfilms, 1976. F869.L89 M568x 1976a

Tuck, R. D. "Behind the Zoot Suit Riots," Survey Graphic 32:313-316, August 1943.

Turner, Ralph H. "Zoot Suiters and Mexicans: Symbols in Crowd Behavior." American Journal of Sociology 62:14-20, July 1956.

Zoot Suit Riots. 1998. http://www.suavecito.com/history.htm (26 May 1998)

Zootsuiters. 1997. http://www.brownpride.com/history/history.asp?a=losangeles/zootsuitriots (26 May 1998)

Periodical Sources

Chicano Periodical Index, 1967 - (Ref E184.M5 C448X) Subject Heading: "Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, CA, 1943"

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - (shelved on Reference Table 2) Subject Heading: Look in Vol. 14, July 1943 - April 1945 under "Race Riots"

Social Sciences Index, 1974 - (formerly Social Science & Humanities Index, 1965-73 and the International Index, 1907-65) (shelved on Reference Table 4) Subject Heading: Look in Vol. 10, April 1943 - March 1946 under "Zoot Suit Movement"

Newspapers

New York Times Index Subject Heading: Look in the 1943 volume under "Crime-California"

Compiled by Paula J. Crawford / paula@toto.csustan.edu , Reference Librarian, ©1980, 1998. Latest update 5.1998.