{"product_id":"viva-george-elaine-a-pea-9781477321430","title":"Viva George!: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the Us-Mexico Border","description":"\u003cb\u003e2021 Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For 120 years, residents of the cross-border community of Laredo\/Nuevo Laredo have celebrated George Washington's birthday together, and this account reveals the essential political work of a time-honored civic tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and \"Pocahontas\" riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace.  Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Pe shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Pe finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elaine A. Pe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477321438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477321430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Elaine A. Pe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988998193407,"sku":"9781477321430","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fddc8adc-e84e-421b-8b98-4e229ce90b10.jpg?v=1683297348","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/viva-george-elaine-a-pea-9781477321430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}