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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.
Price: $28.95
Pages: 304
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
05 May 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520272132
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“A highly readable and important analysis not only of the holiday’s origins but also of the native-born and immigrant Latino communities that created it.”
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).
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Before the American Civil War
2. The First Battle of Puebla, 1862
3. The American Civil War and the Second Battle of Puebla
4. The Juntas Patrióticas Mejicanas Blossom
5. One War, Three Fronts
6. Shaping and Reshaping the Cinco de Mayo, 1868?2011
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction
1. Before the American Civil War
2. The First Battle of Puebla, 1862
3. The American Civil War and the Second Battle of Puebla
4. The Juntas Patrióticas Mejicanas Blossom
5. One War, Three Fronts
6. Shaping and Reshaping the Cinco de Mayo, 1868?2011
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index