Inventing the Fiesta City
Subtitle: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: March 16, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780826343109
Subjects: American history; History; Sociology; History: American; USA; Holidays (non religious); History / United States / State & Local; United States - State & Local - General; Festivals; Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.); San Antonio; San Antonio (Tex.); Social life and customs; Texas
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 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.--Amazon.com.