Summary: Discrimination Among Pachuca Women
Throughout the whole chapter, one could easily be able to notice the discrimination these pachuca women received. Much like the discrimination that women not only in this country but all over the world still receive to this day. As well as the pachuca women, women today want to be provided with a sense of personal freedom and control. Another comparison is that women can feel like outsiders. The women then used the zoot-style to help them feel like they belong somewhere, to help them escape their feelings of feeling like an outsider in the US. The persona these pachucas created gave them an identity, this identity was nothing like their more traditional mothers, as Escobedo mentioned it sensed a belonging to “distinctly Mexican American subculture.”
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Venegas witnessed police officers harassing a group of zoot suiters, she was arrested on disturbing the peace and was charged for carrying a concealed weapon, because she carried brass knuckles for protection. Instead the newspapers labeled her as a “Pachuca” girl, they labeled what she had done as gang affiliation. The protests that were made on behalf of the zoot suiters made Venegas the perfect target to be portrayed wrongly just for the media campaign. Venegas’s case resembles those of the people that have died due to police brutality. The reason why is because, in most cases that police brutality does occur the media usually always portrays the police as “innocent”, they turn the tables and make it seem like the person who is usually African American or Hispanic, they portray these people as these negative stereotypes. The one thing that stuck out to me the most was in Jose Diaz’s sleepy lagoon case, how the police investigated 10 women ages 13-21 because “they resembled the pachuca women.” When the court couldn’t find any of the women guilty, they refused to let the girls go. The girls were charged with the crime of rioting, declaring them ward of the state under investigation. All simply because they resembled the identity of a pachuca women. It’s clear that the Pachuca women were representing a side to embrace themselves that people hadn’t seen before. They were adopting a spirit of adventure that was new to both the Mexican and American
Venegas witnessed police officers harassing a group of zoot suiters, she was arrested on disturbing the peace and was charged for carrying a concealed weapon, because she carried brass knuckles for protection. Instead the newspapers labeled her as a “Pachuca” girl, they labeled what she had done as gang affiliation. The protests that were made on behalf of the zoot suiters made Venegas the perfect target to be portrayed wrongly just for the media campaign. Venegas’s case resembles those of the people that have died due to police brutality. The reason why is because, in most cases that police brutality does occur the media usually always portrays the police as “innocent”, they turn the tables and make it seem like the person who is usually African American or Hispanic, they portray these people as these negative stereotypes. The one thing that stuck out to me the most was in Jose Diaz’s sleepy lagoon case, how the police investigated 10 women ages 13-21 because “they resembled the pachuca women.” When the court couldn’t find any of the women guilty, they refused to let the girls go. The girls were charged with the crime of rioting, declaring them ward of the state under investigation. All simply because they resembled the identity of a pachuca women. It’s clear that the Pachuca women were representing a side to embrace themselves that people hadn’t seen before. They were adopting a spirit of adventure that was new to both the Mexican and American