Author : Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343120
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Book Synopsis Inventing the Fiesta City by : Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
Download or read book Inventing the Fiesta City written by Laura Hernández-Ehrisman and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernández-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos. In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio offers a unique fusion of Southern, Western, and Mexican cultures that articulates a distinct community identity. From its beginning as a celebration of a new social order in San Antonio controlled by a German and Anglo elite to the citywide spectacle of today, Hernández-Ehrisman traces the connections between Fiesta and the construction of the city's tourist industry and social change in San Antonio.