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Beatings, whippings, canings, lynchings, labor riots at River Rouge, race riots in Tulsa, zoot suit riots in East L. The boys need tuxedos, zoot suits or military cadet uniforms; the girls, matching dresses. Jackson relates the protagonist's move away from the Brotherhood to the emergence of the "sharpie" in wartime Harlem, and recovers the historical specificity and sociopolitical radicalism of this cultural type, among whom he includes the zoot suit youths and Rinehart. |
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