(Please credit Jordan Kubat Photography)
Written by Alina Mae Wilson
I just watched an amazing play called Zoot Suit. Prior to this performance, I had never heard of the Zoot Suit Riots or Henry Leyvas- the man upon whom the central character is based. After watching Zoot Suit at Santa Ana College, I immediately raced home to bombard Google with searches about the riots and Henry Leyvas, which led to me to gasping over my ignorance on the subject. How could something like the Zoot Suit Riots happen in my home state, in nearby Los Angeles to be exact, without me knowing about it? How could the subject of Henry Leyvas’s (and many other people’s) false arrest and imprisonment not be broached a single time during all my years of education? Continue Reading
