Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot suits, race, and riot in wartime L.A.

Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón

Title: Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot suits, race, and riot in wartime L.A.

Published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Description: xii, 313 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 283-304

Note: "A portion of this work appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, as "Los Angeles GeoPolitics and the Zoot-Suit Riot, 1943", Journal of social science history 24:1 (Spring 2000): 223-56, and is reprinted here with permission."--T.p. verso

Subject(s):

• Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, 1942-1943
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Violence -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Los Angeles
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
• Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Mexican Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
• Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Review(s):

• Samponaro, Phil. "Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A." Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA) 28.4 (Dec 2005): 447
• Lopez. Ian F. Haney. "Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race and Riot in Wartime L.A." Journal of American History 91.3 (Dec 2004): 1076
• Chavez, Ernesto. "Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A." The Western Historical Quarterly 36.2 (Summer 2005): 213-213

Read: September 21, 2005