In El Paso, the nickname 'El Chuco' celebrates a unique identity, tied to 1930s Pachuco culture and the urban legends of a downtown shoe sign that shaped local lore.

Death to Pachuco: A Chicano Noir is a comic that Henry Barajas is crowdfunding on Kickstarter, "pachuco" defined as "a young Mexican-American having a taste for flashy clothes and a special jargon and ...

Young zoot suiters learned the very act of daring to assert themselves was, in the minds of many, un-American. Nothing about the zoot suits was explicitly Mexican, but boldly demanding to be seen was ...

“Fifty British officers and men were bound hand and foot and then bayonetted to death following the capture of Hong Kong,” ...

In June 1943, Los Angeles erupted into the worst race riots in the city to date. For 10 straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in search ...

Introduction : a genealogy of vendidas -- Domesticating the pachuca -- Black skirts, dark slacks, and brown knees : pachuca style and spectacle -- During World War II -- Saying "nothin'" : pachucas ...

The Black Plague, Boston Massacre, French Revolution and zoot suit riots were just four of the many historical events students researched for their National History Day projects ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) - Jose Rico was diagnosed with brain cancer and is unable to work as he undergoes medical treatment. Rico is known in the community as the "Puerto Rican" Pachuco. Friends hosted ...