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Book Review


San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. By Judith Berg Sobré. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. xiv, 264 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-58544-222-4.)
Judith Berg Sobré offers a heavily documented and well-illustrated account of parades and associated festivals in multiethnic San Antonio from 1866 to 1900. She covers the history of six civic holidays: the Fourth of July (American), Juneteenth (African American), Diez y Seis (Mexican American), Columbus Day (Italian American), Volksfest (German American), and the Battle of Flowers (Anglo-American). She argues that after 1877 demographic change and improved transportation made the city more American and less ethnic. Parades both reflected and encouraged this Americanization. . . .
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