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Author Peña, Elaine A., 1979- author.

Title ¡Viva George! : celebrating Washington's birthday at the US-Mexico border / Elaine A. Peña.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
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Series Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture
Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. From Border Capricho to Border Scaffolding -- Part I. Playing for Power -- 1. Playing Indian, Playing Colonial -- 2. Playing Mexican -- Part II. Playing under Duress -- 3. Hurricane Alice and the International Bridge Closure Crisis -- 4. Paso Libre -- 5. Us, Them, and Festive Security -- Conclusion. Why Study Border Enactments? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Festivals -- Texas -- Laredo -- History.
Festivals.
Texas -- Laredo.
History.
Festivals -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- History.
Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo.
Political customs and rites -- Texas -- Laredo.
Political customs and rites.
Political customs and rites -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo.
Festivals -- Texas -- Laredo -- International cooperation -- History.
International cooperation.
Festivals -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- International cooperation -- History.
Ethnosociology -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Ethnosociology.
Laredo (Tex.) -- Relations -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo.
International relations.
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Original 9781477321430 1477321438 9781477321447 1477321446 (DLC) 2020008799 (OCoLC)1145087807
ISBN 9781477321454 (electronic book)
1477321454 (electronic book)
9781477321430
1477321438
9781477321447
1477321446
Sudoc No. Z UA380.8 P370vi