{"id":589,"date":"2015-08-09T21:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2020-06-04T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:11:40","slug":"pachucaos-the-criminalization-of-mexican-youth-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Pachuca\/os: The Criminalization of Mexican Youth, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part I – Series On The Criminalization Of Mexican Youth:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Mexican American youths detained for questioning, Daily News, Los Angeles, CA (1942). Source: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

In my process of researching the history of Mexicans<\/em> in Ventura County, I have collected thousands of news clippings. The majority of the clippings focus on the themes of\u00a0labor, migration, and activism, which I’m writing on.<\/p>\n

It’s common for my colleagues to contact me to see if I have anything on a selected topic; they or their students are working on. Months ago, my friend contacted me to see if I had anything on pachuca\/os<\/em> in Oxnard. One of his students was writing a research paper on the subject and was having a hard time finding any primary sources.<\/p>\n

So, I looked through my news-clipping database, and I found that I have collected a lot of\u00a0information on pachuca\/os\u00a0<\/em>between 1942 and 1944.<\/p>\n

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During this time period, politicians, educators, and law enforcement waged war against\u00a0juvenile delinquency, <\/em>which targeted\u00a0Mexican youth.\u00a0As noted by historian Eduardo Obreg\u00f3n Pag\u00e1n, the public would “debate whether Mexican citizens and their American-born children were culturally, politically, intellectually, and biologically capable of living with a white, civilized, democratic society.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Like, Los Angeles Times<\/em> and other newspapers during this period, the Oxnard Press-Courier <\/em>was\u00a0<\/em>utilized by local officials to\u00a0criminalize \u00a0pachuca\/os<\/em> in Oxnard and Ventura County!<\/p>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 25 Aug 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 17 Sep 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 18 Sep 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 19 Sep 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 23 Sep 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 5 Oct 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 15 Oct 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: Oxnard Press-Courier, 28 Oct 1942.<\/p><\/div>\n

[1]<\/a> Eduardo Obreg\u00f3n Pag\u00e1n, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 3.<\/p>\n

c\/s<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part I – Series On The Criminalization Of Mexican Youth: In my process of researching the history of Mexicans in Ventura County, I have collected thousands of news clippings. The majority of the clippings focus on the themes of\u00a0labor, migration, and activism, which I’m writing on. It’s common for my colleagues to contact me to […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ibJA-9v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1884,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=1884","url_meta":{"origin":589,"position":0},"title":"Pachuca\/os: The Criminalization of Mexican Youth, Part III","date":"June 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Part III - Series On The Criminalization Of Mexican Youth: More new clippings of the\u00a0Oxnard Press-Courier\u00a0criminalizing \u00a0pachuca\/os\u00a0(Mexicans)\u00a0in Oxnard and Ventura County! c\/s","rel":"","context":"In "Oxnard"","img":{"alt_text":"Untitled","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/534\/20445880796_90fdeea5b6_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1804,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=1804","url_meta":{"origin":589,"position":1},"title":"Pachuca\/os: The Criminalization of Mexican Youth, Part II","date":"May 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Part II - Series On The Criminalization Of Mexican Youth: It's very clear that the Oxnard Press-Courier\u00a0was\u00a0utilized by local officials to\u00a0criminalize \u00a0pachuca\/os (Mexicans)\u00a0in Oxnard and Ventura County! c\/s","rel":"","context":"In "Oxnard"","img":{"alt_text":"Untitled","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/419\/18967278394_4fb01c02b5_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":765,"url":"http:\/\/luishmoreno.com\/?p=765","url_meta":{"origin":589,"position":2},"title":"The Life of An Academic Migrant","date":"April 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that every time I return to teaching I have no time for writing. 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