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First edition. |
Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
Series |
Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture
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Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Festivals -- Texas -- Laredo -- History.
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Festivals. |
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Texas -- Laredo. |
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History. |
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Festivals -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- History.
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Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo. |
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Political customs and rites -- Texas -- Laredo.
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Political customs and rites. |
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Political customs and rites -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo.
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Festivals -- Texas -- Laredo -- International cooperation -- History.
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International cooperation. |
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Festivals -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- International cooperation -- History.
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Ethnosociology -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Ethnosociology. |
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Laredo (Tex.) -- Relations -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo.
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International relations. |
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Original 9781477321430 1477321438 9781477321447 1477321446 (DLC) 2020008799 (OCoLC)1145087807 |
ISBN |
9781477321454 (electronic book) |
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1477321454 (electronic book) |
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9781477321430 |
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1477321438 |
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9781477321447 |
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1477321446 |
Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 P370vi |
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