Step back in time and explore the history of youth culture with researcher, author and lecturer Luis Alvarez at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, with a unique Evening with the Experts presentation at San Diego Miramar College.
Alvarez, an associate history professor at the University of California San Diego, has focused extraordinary research and teaching on comparative race and ethnicity, popular culture, and social movements in the history of Chicanas/os, Latinas/os, African Americans, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
Through in-depth interviews with former zoot-suiters, the prolific author explores race, religion, and the politics of culture in urban America during World War II in his recent book, “The Power of the Zoot.” Additional publications include essays in Mexican Americans in World War II (University of Texas Press), Latino Studies, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and Popular Music and Society.
“The Power of the Zoot ” is offered through the college’s Evening with the Experts: Diversity ROCKS! lecture and performance series. Presentations are free and are held in Lecture Hall I-101 at Miramar College. No reservations are necessary and no parking permits are required on Friday evenings.
San Diego Miramar College is located at 10440 Black Mountain Road, one block west of I-15 between Mira Mesa Blvd. and Carroll Canyon Road.