| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. By Eduardo Obregón Pagán. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

The Chicano movement sought to recover what many believed was a forgotten past. A key event that artists, poets, and playwrights—among them José Montoya and Luis Valdez—attempted to recapture and recast, and in the process mythologize, was the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the following year's Zoot Suit Riot. Any historian studying this incident has to contend with the legend of the pachuco (Mexican American zoot suiter) as proto-Chicano; in Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon, Eduardo Obregón Pagán impressively wades through the myth to produce the most comprehensive rendering of this episode to date.

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