The San Diego World's Fairs and southwestern memory, 1880-1940 / Matthew F. Bokovoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bokovoy, Matthew F., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.).

Panama-California Exposition.

Panama-California International Exposition (1916 : San Diego, Calif.).

Panama-California International Exposition.

California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.).

California Pacific International Exposition.

San Diego (Calif.)--History--20th century.

San Diego (Calif.).

Physical Description:

xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2005]

Summary:

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. These San Diego fairs distributed national images of southern California and the Southwest unsurpassed in the early twentieth century.

By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest. In tracing how the two fairs reflected civic conflict over an invented San Diego culture, Bokovoy explains the emergence of a myth in which the city embraced and incorporated native peoples, Hispanics, and Anglo settlers to benefit its modern development.

Contents:

The Spanish heritage

San Diego and the Spanish colonial inheritance

The Panama-California Exposition, 1915-1916

- Southern California gets the Panama Exposition

Planning a southwestern exposition, 1915

"The peers of their white conquerors"

"A heritage in history, forever"

The California-Pacific International Exposition, 1935-1936

The legacies of 1915: the San Diego Century-of-Progress Exposition, 1935-1936

"The answer is to be found in those yesteryears and tomorrows"

Popular amusements and the fight for moral authority in Southern California

Spanish fantasy heritage, social politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-303) and index.

ISBN:

0826336426

OCLC:

60420170