Graduation Year
2014
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Department
History
Reader 1
Tomas F. Summers Sandoval
Reader 2
Rita Roberts
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© 2014 Lauren Becker
Abstract
In this thesis, the emergence of pachucos and their later influence on Chicano movement ideology is examined. By visually challenging accepted racial identities, pachucos protested the discrimination of their time. Later on, Chicanos would take the figure of the pachuco and combine it with other aspects of Chicano ideology to form a synthesized symbol of resistance to inspire their fight for equal rights.
Recommended Citation
Becker, Lauren, "The Myth Still Lives: Pachuco Subculture and Symbolic Styles of Resistance" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 360.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/360
