This resource is designed to accompany the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's and the Smithsonian's Latino Center's video Latinas Talk Latinas, Pachucas: How Fashion Asserts Identity. After watching the video, which is located in the second tile of this collection, please return to this page to learn more about the assets we have in our digital collection as well as additional resources that will help you further explore the topics and themes presented in the video.

In this story of Pachucas we celebrate their role in the making of Pachuco culture and for the ways in which their fashion stood in defiance of Mexican gender norms, second-class citizenship, and white middle-class ideas of American womanhood.