TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peña,Elaine A.
TI  - Viva George!: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the US-Mexico Border 
SN  - 9781477321454
AV  - GT4811.L37 P46 2020
U1  - 394.269764462 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Ethnosociology
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region
KW  - Festivals
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Nuevo Laredo
KW  - History
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Texas
KW  - Laredo
KW  - Festivals-History-Mexico-Nuevo Laredo
KW  - Festivals-History-Texas-Laredo
KW  - Political customs and rites
KW  - Political customs and rites-Texas-Laredo
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/321430
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477321454
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ER  -