Name: Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
Author: Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman (Author)
ISBN: 9780826343109

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Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio

Author(s): Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman (Author)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Date: 15 Mar. 2008
Language: English
Print length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0826343104
ISBN-13: 9780826343109

Book Description

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 Hernandez-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, Hernandez-Ehrisman traces the connections between Fiesta and the construction of the city’s tourist industry and social change in San Antonio.

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The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century.

From the Back Cover

The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century.

About the Author

Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman is an adjunct professor at St. Edward’s University. Prior to that, she was a Fellow at Southern Methodist University’s Clements Center for Southwestern Studies. This is her first book.

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