‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’ takes place in LA in 1938, where racial violence and tensions culminated in the Zoot Suit Riots. Actress Stephanie Arcila says the drama will be an emotional and intellectual release for many fans confined at home.
Swing music and jitterbug fans made the zoot suit popular in the 1930s. And Arcila says that they are part of Mexican American history and identity today.
But beyond fashion and dance, historians say that zoot suits, like the ones featured on the show, also became symbols of a counterculture. Gómez says that there is a tendency in the United States to look at people of color as homogenous, and this strips their identity of individual texture and variety.
She compares profiling then with more recent policies today, saying"you can draw a straight line" from 1943 Los Angeles to New York’s stop-and-frisk policies.
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