Week 5: Archive, Source for Discussion, and Bibliography -Dan Ruprecht

Dan Ruprecht

History 209S

Primary Bibliography

Archival Collections

·         Manuel Ruíz Papers. Special Collections, Green Library, Stanford University.

o   http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf9199p0dg;query=;style=oac4;doc.view=entire_text

o   https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083135

o   Manuel Ruíz was a Mexican-American lawyer born and raised in Los Angeles who, as chairman of the Citizens Committee for Latin American Youth (a group appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to improve the living and working conditions of young Hispanics), was involved in the defense for the Sleepy Lagoon Case, which sparked the riots.

o   The papers include “organizational records and subject files. There are minutes, agendas, reports, articles, correspondence, notes, statements, newspaper clippings, financial records, by-laws and photographs. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Biographical Information, Writings of Manuel Ruiz, Jr., Political Files, Organizational Records, Subject Files, and Photographs.” I am particularly interested in Ruíz’s writings, which included his analysis of the “juvenile delinquency problem” of wartime America, as well as the Photographs.

 Primary Sources

·         Source for class discussion:

o   Meyer, Agnes E. “A New Youth Movement: Blame Not on Them Alone, But on Our Entire Society” in the Washington Post, June 13, 1943. Via ProQuest: http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/151622792/66A7AFC4B15C4345PQ/31?accountid=14026

·         Oral Histories of:

o   Art Arenas

o   George Bray

o   Carlos Espinoza

o   Marietta Lee

o   Lupe Leyvas

o   Rudy Leyvas

o   Gloria Rios Berlin

o   George J. Sanchez

o   Reno Sanetti

o   All personally involved in the riots in some capacity, interviewed for American Experience: The Zoot Suit Riots. Public Broadcasting Service, 2002, accessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwINn5DEL1c

·         Periodicals:

o   Christian Century 1943-1945 available at Hoover Library

o   La Opinión, microfilm at Green

o   Life magazine, available via Google Books,https://books.google.com/books?id=N0EEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1940#all_issues_anchor

o   Los Angeles Daily News, along with Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, Los Angeles Times, Mexican Voice, The Nation, Newsweek, New York Times, and the Washington Post all available via Proquest Historical Newspapers, http://search.proquest.com/news?accountid=14026

Secondary Research

·         Rosales, F. Arturo. Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Houston: University of Houston’s Arte Publico Press, 1996.

o   Not only including context of Mexican immigration into the States and into LA before the riots, but also clarifies how the riots fit into a much larger movement for Mexican American rights. This source is a textbook rich with primary sources and images.

·         Allatson, Paul. Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

o   As the title suggest, this is a useful guide to some key terms in Latino/a studies.

·         Gerado, Galadriel Mehera. Misunderstood Masculinities: Competing Expressions of Manhood, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Young Mexican American Masculine Identity in World War II Los Angeles. Los Angeles: University of California, dissertation, 2007.

o   A dissertation discussing masculine identity of Mexican Americans during the Second World War. Has already been immensely helpful in showing me where to find other sources. Also, Gerado’s focus is similar enough from mine (Yet diverges. I wish to speak on the conflict of identity between American servicemen and their pachuco victims; he concentrated on the later alone) to use his essay as a valuable source.

o   This is full of primary sources quoted at length.

·         Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

o   Begins with the claim: “the expressive behavior of crowds proved more important than their actual deeds” and seeks to prove this using Zoot Suit Riots as a test case. Focuses on the creation of the “imaginary zooter,” the target, by American media and in the popular imagination.

·         Griswold del Castillo, Richard. World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.

o   Gives the status-quo of Mexican American lives before the war. The appendices as well give primary source documents relevant to my topic.

·         Rubin, Rachel; Melnick, Jeffrey. Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction. New York & London: New York University Press, 2007.

o   There’s a chapter specifically on the history of the Zoot in America.

·         Mangan, J. A.; Walvin, James. Manliness and Morality: Middle-class Masculinity in Britain and America 1800-1940. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1987

o   I am hoping that the chapter “The Habit of Victory: The American Military and the Cult of Manliness” by Donal D. J. Mrozek can help my description of the American ideal.

·         Whitehead, Stephen M.; Barrett, Frank J. The Masculinities Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press, in association with Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2001.

o   I’ll be reading the chapter “The Organizational Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity: The Case of the US Navy” in hopes for more info on the ideal American soldier.

·         Leonard, Kevin Allen. The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II. Albequerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

o   Again, there’s a chapter devoted to the Zoot Suit Riots, and includes tons of primary sources in full.

·         Peiss, Kathy. Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Films

·         American Experience: The Zoot Suit Riots. 2002, PBS. Accessed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwINn5DEL1c

o   Includes oral histories of Art Arenas, Goerge Bray, Carlos Espinoza, Marietta Lee, Lupe Leyvas, Rudy Leyvas, Gloria Rios Berlin, George J. Sanchez, and Reno Sanetti, all personally involved in the riots in some capacity.

o   Further contextual background as well as imagery. 

Wish-list Bibliography

All the following are archival collections available in Los Angeles, either at one of UCLA’s holdings or the East Los Angeles Library.

·         Ron Lopez papers at UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, particularly copies of “Analysis of Our People,” “Are We Proud of Being Mexicans?” and “Diferencia en la Esfera de Accion de Los Padres y Sus Hijos en Este Pais” from the Mexican Voice V.1 #5.

o   OAC link: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt167nc4q0/dsc/?query=zoot%20suit%20riots#c01-1.2.9.2

·         Central Avenue Sounds Oral History Collection at UCLA Special Collections, Young Research Library.

·         Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Papers, also at UCLA Special Collections, Young Research Library.

·         Report and Recommendations of Governor Warren’s Citizen Committee on Recent Violence in Los Angeles. June 12, 1943. Chicano Resource Center, East Los Angeles Library.