Viva George! : Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border /
Peña, Elaine A.
Viva George! : Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border / Elaine A. Peña. - 1 online resource (199 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION From Border Capricho to Border Scaffolding -- PART 1 PLAYING FOR POWER -- CHAPTER 1 Playing Indian, Playing Colonial -- CHAPTER 2 Playing Mexican -- PART 2 PLAYING UNDER DURESS -- CHAPTER 3 Hurricane Alice and the International Bridge Closure Crisis -- CHAPTER 4 Paso Libre -- CHAPTER 5 Us, Them, and Festive Security -- CONCLUSION Why Study Border Enactments? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781477321454
10.7560/321430 doi
Ethnosociology--Mexican-American Border Region.
Festivals--History.--Mexico--Nuevo Laredo
Festivals--International cooperation--History.--Mexico--Nuevo Laredo
Festivals--History.--Texas--Laredo
Festivals--International cooperation--History.--Texas--Laredo
Festivals-History-Mexico-Nuevo Laredo.
Festivals-History-Texas-Laredo.
Political customs and rites--Mexico--Nuevo Laredo.
Political customs and rites--Texas--Laredo.
Political customs and rites-Texas-Laredo.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
GT4811.L37 / P46 2020
394.269764462
Viva George! : Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border / Elaine A. Peña. - 1 online resource (199 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION From Border Capricho to Border Scaffolding -- PART 1 PLAYING FOR POWER -- CHAPTER 1 Playing Indian, Playing Colonial -- CHAPTER 2 Playing Mexican -- PART 2 PLAYING UNDER DURESS -- CHAPTER 3 Hurricane Alice and the International Bridge Closure Crisis -- CHAPTER 4 Paso Libre -- CHAPTER 5 Us, Them, and Festive Security -- CONCLUSION Why Study Border Enactments? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781477321454
10.7560/321430 doi
Ethnosociology--Mexican-American Border Region.
Festivals--History.--Mexico--Nuevo Laredo
Festivals--International cooperation--History.--Mexico--Nuevo Laredo
Festivals--History.--Texas--Laredo
Festivals--International cooperation--History.--Texas--Laredo
Festivals-History-Mexico-Nuevo Laredo.
Festivals-History-Texas-Laredo.
Political customs and rites--Mexico--Nuevo Laredo.
Political customs and rites--Texas--Laredo.
Political customs and rites-Texas-Laredo.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
GT4811.L37 / P46 2020
394.269764462