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• Title: Cloth-Wrapped People, Trouble, And Power: Pachuco Culture in the Greater Southwest.
• Author : Journal of the Southwest
• Release Date : January 22, 2003
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 211 KB

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Pachuco youth culture of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico now reaches into other areas of both countries under the newer names: cholo and, in some places, chuco. In the United States it has been described as a Mexican American subculture. Early pachuco forms probably gelled in the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez area between 1910 and 1920 and spread during subsequent migrations. The violence, upheaval, and famine in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910, had occasioned large population displacements and migrations to the U.S.-Mexico border area, especially through El Paso, which at that rime was a center of labor contracting for the western United States. The calo spoken in central Mexico probably came north with these migrations and combined with Southwest regional and border influences. In 1943, the so-called Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles brought national notoriety to the youth culture. Initially emerging in southwestern U.S. border towns, pachuco forms have been present for years in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and the Midwest. Contemporary chuco and cholo forms have now appeared in diverse places distant from the border in both the United States and Mexico; in addition to being in border towns and cities, they can be found in the Mexican states of Michoacan, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, and Zacatecas. For some years now, they have also been influencing youth-culture forms in Central America. The bulk of studies on the pachuco phenomenon in the academic literature depart from theories and models derived from the school of thought known as the sociology of deviance (Alvarez 1967; Barrera Basola 1979; Bogardus 1943; Coltharp 1965; Griffith 1948; Trejo 1968; Vigil 1988). Many of these deviance-oriented approaches aim to explain why the youth are deviant. For example, Carey McWilliams (author of North from Mexico, 1968) felt that gangs came into existence because boys turned away from school and home, adding that gangs were a well-known urban phenomenon. Other causes of pachuquismo as a deviant phenomenon that have been advanced are poor housing, crowded conditions at home, language problems, and lack of supervision due to working parents. For Vigil, contemporary Los Angeles hardcore gangs form because of "urban maladaptation," failure to acculturate successfully or completely, and "marginal ethnic and personal identifies" (1988:3, 38, 9).

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