Abstract

This article examines the communal, familial, and individual dilemmas created by the pachuca persona in World War II Los Angeles. Although reviled by Anglo reformers and Mexican parents alike, pachucas created an affirming vision of racialized womanhood that became a key marker of a new Mexican American female identity.

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