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Considers (74) H.J. Res. 293.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Exhibitions
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Considers (74) H.J. Res. 293.
Author : Evelyn Barker
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
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"In this historical account, author Evelyn Barker tells the story of the Texas Centennial and the woman who, with the support of her extraordinary family, rose above early hardships to become one of Texas' finest photographers and the first to compile a comprehensive picture of the state."--Jacket.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Exhibitions
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Considers (74) H.J. Res. 293.
Author : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 1935
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Author : Dallas (Tex.). Texas Centennial Central Exposition
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Texas
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Author : Texas. Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1936*
Category : Texas
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Author : John Morán González
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292778996
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans created literary responses that critiqued these racialized representations while forging a new bilingual, bicultural community within the United States. The development of a modern Tejana identity, controversies surrounding bicultural nationalism, and other conflictual aspects of the transformation from mexicano to Mexican American are explored in this study. Capturing this fascinating aesthetic and political rebirth, Border Renaissance presents innovative readings of important novels by María Elena Zamora O'Shea, Américo Paredes, and Jovita González. In addition, the previously overlooked literary texts by members of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are given their first detailed consideration in this compelling work of intellectual and literary history. Drawing on extensive archival research in the English and Spanish languages, John Morán González revisits the 1930s as a crucial decade for the vibrant Mexican American reclamation of Texas history. Border Renaissance pays tribute to this vital turning point in the Mexican American struggle for civil rights.
Author : Jacob W. Olmstead
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2021-01-30
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ISBN : 9781682830833
In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth?s celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city?s identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the Frontier Centennial from its inception as a commemorative fair to theme park enshrining the mythic West to show the various ways centennial planners, boosters, and civic leaders sought to use the celebration as a means to bolster the city?s identity and image as a modern city of the American West. Olmstead?s retelling of the Frontier Centennial looks at two distinctive processes. The first addresses the interplay of memory, identity, and image in the evolution of the celebration?s commemorative messages. Fort Worth?s image as a progressive western metropolis also impacted other areas, less central, to Frontier Centennial planning. Debates over how outsiders would interpret features of the celebration, carried on by club women and others, reveal the interest the citizenry held in upholding or contesting the city?s modern image. Overlapping with the issues of memory and identity, the second process addresses how the larger narratives of the mythic West influenced the content of the celebration. Though drawn from actual events and people, the myth reduces the past to its ?ideological essence.? Mythmakers, like historians, draw upon facts to explain and give meaning to a particular worldview.
Author : Texas Centennial Commission
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Page : 43 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Texas
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