El Cinco de Mayo

An American Tradition

AvDavid Hayes-Bautista

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Why is Cinco de Mayo - a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862 - so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time - it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that is engaged, empowered, and expanding.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-05-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520272125

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David E. Hayes-Bautista is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State (UC Press).

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"El Cinco de Mayo does what I once thought impossible: explain the relevance and the importance of commemorating this day." -- Susana Olague Trapani Washington Ind Rev Of Bks "A highly readable and important analysis not only of the holiday's origins but also of the native-born and immigrant Latino communities that created it." Southern California Quarterly "An important contribution to the canons of American and Latino social and cultural history." -- Rich Schultz Journal of San Diego History "A valuable work for the general reader, students, and scholars interested in the history of Mexican Americans and the US West." -- Frank P. Barajas Historian

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List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Before the American Civil War 2. The First Battle of Puebla, 1862 3. The American Civil War and the Second Battle of Puebla 4. The Juntas Patrioticas Mejicanas Blossom 5. One War, Three Fronts 6. Shaping and Reshaping the Cinco de Mayo, 1868?2011 Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index