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Cadaval, Olivia. "The Hispano American Festival and the Latino Community: Creating an Identity in the Nation's Capital," George Washington University, September 1989.
Acknowledging scholarship in cultural history, ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, and ethnography, this study examines the cultural dynamics of a very recent multiethnic community in an urban society as manifested by an annual community celebration. Through the celebration of the Hispano American Festival, the Latino community in Washington, D. C., records its nascent history and its growing multiethnic composition, stakes its claim in the city and federal government, enacts its emergent group dynamics, and culturally marks and defines its living space. The study examines the Latino Festival in the context of Latin American celebration traditions and explores the relationships between the dynamics of the event and the issues of ethnicity as characterized in the 1960s and 1970s due to continues Latin American immigration, neighborhood decline, urban renewal, and emerging Third World ideology.
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