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Viva George! : Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border / Elaine A. Peña.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (199 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477321454
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.269764462 23
LOC classification:
  • GT4811.L37 P46 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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