That becomes the story of young people in LA,” says Pilar Tompkins Rivas, director of the Vincent Price Art Museum. “I didn’t want to get too caught up with geographic boundaries because that’s reductive,” said Tompkins Rivas. I wanted to bring in some points of intersection.” That diversity is certainly on display and the show documents the influence of British youth culture on Latinos, juxtaposing photographs of British Teddy Boys with zoot-suited Mexican American youth, known as pachucos. Facebook Twitter Pinterest US armed forces personnel with wooden clubs during the zoot suit riots in 1943. Sandra de la Loza also explores the way youth establish communities and spaces for themselves outside of the mainstream.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2016 18:02 UTC