Inventing the Fiesta City
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...
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...
