Suited N Booted
A term used to describe men’s suits with long, loose coats with wide shoulders and large lapels.
What is Zoot Suits
The rancher who served as assistant mayor, city councilman, and one of L.A. County's first supervisors.
Who is Julian Chavez
Understood as networks of people and community resources.
What is Social capital
Lemon Grove Incident
What is 1931
A framework that recognizes six forms of cultural capital (aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial and resistant capital) that minoritized groups possess. This framework affirms that marginalized groups posses an array of knowledge, skills, abilities, and networks to survive and resist racism and other forms of oppression.
What is Community cultural wealth
The African-American community in New York, where the zoot suits first became popular in the 1930s.
What is Harlem
The three prominent neighborhoods that made up Chavez Ravine.
What is Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop.
Refers to those knowledges and skills fostered through oppositional behavior that challenge inequality
What is Resistant Capital
Sleepy Lagoon Murder
What is August 1, 1942
The process whereby a historically marginalized person or group voluntarily or involuntarily adopts the social, psychological, cultural, and political characteristics of a dominant group.
What is Assimilation
Jazz legend who popularized flamboyant suites in his stage act.
Who is Cab Calloway
The governmental law that allowed the Dodgers to acquire Chavez Revine.
What is Eminent Domain.
The intellectual and social skills attained through communication in multiple languages and/or language styles (including communication through art, music, poetry, theater, and dance).
What is Linguistic capital
Termination of the Bracero Program
What is December 31, 1964
U.S. immigration law enforcement campaign during the summer of 1954 that resulted in the mass deportation of Mexican nationals—Occurred during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency.
What is Operation Wetback
The agency who determined what products American industries would manufacture for the war effort. They issued restrictions targeting zoot suits by banning high-rise trousers that are loose at the knee and long coats.
Who is the War Production Board
The number of families that held out and fought the city's offers to buy their land.
What is 20 families.
The cultural knowledge nurtured among familia (kin) that carry a sense of community history, memory, and cultural intuition.
What is Familial capital
Mendez vs. Westminster
What is 1947
Individuals whose jobs are critical to maintaining the core functions of public health, society, and the economy and who cannot work remotely.
What are Essential workers
The victim of the Sleepy Lagoon Murder.
Who is José Díaz
Federal Housing Authority told residents they would build what type of project in the ravine.
What is Public Housing
The ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future, even in the face of real and perceived barriers.
What is Aspirational capital
Proposition 187
What is 1994
Community-based mutual aid societies created by Mexican immigrants to connect them with a network that links their homeland and new home with resources, support, and a community.
What are Mutualistas