Annotated Bibliography
"Bulosan." The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943. This is a brief biography of Carlos Bulosan. It is useful for orienting students to him as a person and author
Bulosan, Carlos. "Freedom from Want." The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943. This is the essay that accompanies the Rockwell painting of the same title. The essay is used in the unit in order to explore the political atmosphere of 1943.
Bulosan, Carlos. America is in the Heart: A Personal History. Seattle: University of Washington Press,[1946] 1973. This novel gives an in-depth view of Bulosan's migration to the U.S. and his experiences there. In the unit, it is used to describe the segregation imposed upon Filipinos in 1940s Los Angeles.
Chin, Elizabeth. Purchasing power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. This in-depth ethnography of the buying patterns and motivations of African American youth can serve as a framework for understanding the agency of the consumer regardless of age. It helps to situate this unit in the notion that the zoot suit was not a blind choice.
National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. "Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home." Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home. http://www.corestandards.org/ (accessed July 12, 2012). This is the official Common Core website, used to note the particular standard that would be addressed in the unit.
Durand, Jorge, Douglass Massey, and Fernando Charvet. "The Changing Geography of Mexican Immigration to the United States." Social Science Quarterly 81, no. 1 (2000): 1-15. Though this article's focus is on where Mexican immigrants settled in the U.S. over time, it serves as a good and brief version of the history of Mexican immigration as a whole. It informed my description of the Bracero Program and its effects.
Fisher, Douglas, and Nancy Frey. "Homework and the Gradual Release of Responsibility: Making "Responsibility" Possible." The English Journal 98, no. 2 (2008): 40-55. The focus of this article is on using the Gradual Release of Responsibility model in homework. For the sake of this unit, however, the article informed my? brief description of the model itself.
Kelley, Robin D. G.. Race rebels: culture, politics, and the Black working class. New York: Free Press :, 1996. Kelley argues that the wearing of the zoot suit was a political act because of the context in which it was situated. The chapter, "The Riddle of the Zoot," can be used as an example of African Americans, particularly Malcom X, wearing the suit as a symbolic act of cultural politics that brought into question rigid social structures.
Murray, Stuart, and James McCabe. Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: Images that Inspire a Nation. Stockbridge, Mass.: Berkshire House :, 1993. Prints of Rockwell's drafts and final "Four Freedoms" pieces are available in this book. The story of Rockwell's development of the pieces, as well as of the printing of them in The Saturday Evening Post, is also chronicled.
Peiss, Kathy Lee. Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Peiss provides an exhaustive analysis of the evolution of the zoot suit. Her argument is that young men wearing the zoot suit were not politically fighting white supremacy, but rather redefining their own identities within consumer culture.
Rami?rez, Catherine Sue.The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. This incredibly extensive look at how gender and sexuality were central to the zoot suit and its meaning is almost worth an entire unit on its own. Rami?rez argues that the zoot suit was situated as political, and also that both gender and sexuality are linked to the way the pachuco and pachuca were perceived in terms of being "American."
Vargas, Zaragosa. Labor rights are civil rights. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. This rich history of labor rights provided the detail of working and living segregation laid out in the unit as well as the of the committee the California governor assigned to investigate the Zoot Suit Riots.
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