Sentences with phrase «zoot suit riot»
Among his long - form documentaries is Zoot Suit Riots, a film on the youth culture of 1940s Los Angeles and the anti-Mexican riots of the same period.
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These included the Zoot Suit Riots (top right); the whitewashing of América Tropical, a 1932 mural by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros (center); and the World War II incarceration of people of Japanese descent (bottom right).
Troy Michie's exhibition at Company Gallery alluded to the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943, when white servicemen in Los Angeles beat and stripped Californians of color, primarily Mexican - Americans, for the mere fact of the clothes they chose to wear.
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald treat Barack and Michelle Obama to flora and fancy dress, while Troy Michie recalls the Zoot Suit Riots and Firelei Báez the fire of women in Harlem.
Screening: Zoot Suit at Brooklyn Academy of Music Zoot Suit, a 1981 film adapted from an earlier stage production, explores the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when a group of Los Angeles policemen beat and stripped persons of color, primarily Chicanx ones, because they wore certain outfits.