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El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition

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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 america, when it’s scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the vacation isn’t Mexican at all, but somewhat an American one, created by Latinos in California throughout the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over the years—it embodied immigrant nostalgia within the 1930s, U.S. patriotism throughout World War II, Chicano Power within the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions within the 1980s and 1990s. As of late, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that may be engaged, empowered, and expanding.
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