El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition by Hayes-Bautista, David

El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520272132)

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El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition by Hayes-Bautista, David

El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition

$28.95
El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition by Hayes-Bautista, David

El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition

$28.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: David Hayes-Bautista
ISBN-10: 0520272137
ISBN-13: 9780520272132
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.04w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012
By David Hayes-Bautista
By David Hayes-Bautista
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David E. Hayes-Bautista is Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in the Division of General Internal Medicine.. He is the author of La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State (UC Press).

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