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Deconstructing eurocentric tourism and heritage narratives in Mexican American communities : Juan de Oñate as a West Texas icon
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Deconstructing eurocentric tourism and heritage narratives in Mexican American communities : Juan de Oñate as a West Texas icon / Frank G. Pérez and Carlos F. Ortega.
ISBN
0429028016
0429645457
042964809X
0429650736
9780429028014
9780429645457
9780429648090
9780429650734
0367136791
9780367136796
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
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1 online resource
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Biographical / Historical Note
Frank G. Pérez is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Texas, El Paso, where he also teaches Chicano Studies. Carlos F. Ortega is Lecturer in Chicano Studies at the University of Texas, El Paso. His research interests include educational policy, Chicano film and music, and the erasure of cultural heritage. He is co-editor of Chicano Studies: Survey and Analysis.
Summary
This book attempts to dismantle the unfounded Eurocentric view of US-born and immigrant Mexican peoples, that groups together the identities of Latinx, Chicanx, and other indigenous peoples of the Southwest into Hispanics whose contributions to the cultural, historical, and social development of the Southwest are marginalized or made non-existent. The narrative and performative legacies that tourism and fantasy heritage produce are promulgated and consumed by both Latinx and non-Latinx peoples and cultures. This book endeavors to expose these productions through analysis of on-the-ground resistance in the service and spirit of intercultural dialogue and change. This book will offer a precise set of recommendations for breaking away from these practices and thus forming new, veritable identities. With a strongly heritage-oriented discourse, this book on deconstructing Eurocentric representation of Mexican people and their culture will appeal to academics and scholars of heritage tourism, Chicano studies, Southwest studies and Native American studies courses.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Perez, Frank G. Deconstructing Eurocentric Tourism and Heritage Narratives in Mexican American Communities : Juan de oñate As a West Texas Icon. Milton : Routledge, ©2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge cultural heritage and tourism series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Juan de Oñate, fantasy heritage, and heritage tourism in the Southwest; Organization of the book; A Word about Terminology; Notes; 1. Fantasy heritage in southwest tourism; Tourist or visitor? Individual understandings of fantasy heritage tourism; Heritage and public memory in the Southwest; Enter Juan de Oñate as a tourism draw; El Paso's fantasy heritage: Juan de Oñate as local hero; Academics, fantasy heritage, and societal perceptions
Eurocentric historical framingFantasy heritage and public space; Fantasy heritage and tourism: marketing a neo-Spanish heritage; Cultural erasure; Conclusions; Notes; 2. San Elizario's First Thanksgiving of the Americas and the Juan de Oñate fantasy heritage; El Paso's Eurocentric tourism efforts, 1915-2015; The First Thanksgiving: a Mexican region's Eurocentric fantasy; The First Thanksgiving play, 2006; The First Thanksgiving reimagined: the 2016 high school reenactment; The First Thanksgiving and Eurocentric fantasies on the border; The First Thanksgiving dialogue as historical guide
The double-edged sword of fantasy heritageContemporary tourism issues in El Paso; Santa Fe, New Mexico: a fantasy tourism mecca; El Paso v. Santa Fe: from Spaniards in the North to Oñate in the Valley; Tourism and Mexican/American exclusion; Rethinking tourism along the border; A framework for inclusive heritage tourism: lessons from El Paso; Conclusions; Notes; 5. On public memory and ethnic conflict in the current era; The unseen Mexican community; Possibilities: culture and space With; Conclusion: public memory in the era of Donald Trump; Notes; References; Index
The implications of a fantasy past: fantasy heritage and identity politicsThe First Thanksgiving, colonization, and its aftermath; Identity labels and debates in the Southwest; Conclusions; Notes; 3. Mediated debate, historical framing, and public art: The Juan de Oñate controversy in El Paso; Hegemony and the history of the Southwest; Chicano competition for public space; The XII Travelers project and the selection of Oñate; The civic debate: media and expert commentary; Assessing benefits and costs; Notes; 4. Inclusive tourism and public memory; The Oñate fantasy heritage in El Paso
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