¡Viva George! : celebrating Washington's birthday at the US-Mexico border /

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Author / Creator:	Peña, Elaine A., 1979- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
Subject:	Festivals -- Texas -- Laredo -- History. Festivals -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- History. Political customs and rites -- Texas -- Laredo. Political customs and rites -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo. Festivals -- Texas -- Laredo -- International cooperation -- History. Festivals -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- International cooperation -- History. Ethnosociology -- Mexican-American Border Region. Ethnosociology. Festivals. International relations. Political customs and rites. Laredo (Tex.) -- Relations -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo. Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Texas -- Laredo. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12655843

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ISBN:	9781477321454 1477321454 9781477321430 1477321438 9781477321447 1477321446
Summary:	"For more than a century, the border cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have celebrated George Washington's birthday with parades, pageants, and other festivities. This project uses that long-standing tradition as a lens to examine binational relations and cross-border cooperation, especially during times of crisis (e.g., the 1954 flood, currency devaluations, present-day drug violence). It is a work of both ethnography and archival research (as well as a few uncatalogued documents the author received from private collections), and it argues that the tradition of meeting in the middle of the international bridge is more than a goodwill gesture or an exercise in identity-consolidation. Peña maintains the GWB celebration is a repository of bicultural memory, a negotiation platform, a reconciliatory course of action, and even an efficacious mode of border security"--
Other form:	Original 9781477321430 1477321438 9781477321447 1477321446
Govt.docs classification:	Z UA380.8 P370vi

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