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Thoughtful Ways to Celebrate Cinco De Mayo in Dallas
The Latino Cultural Center hopes the community will treat May 5 as a day to learn about Mexican history and culture.
By Taylor Crumpton
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May 4, 2021
1:17 pm
Cinco De Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day, which fails on September 16. It’s a day to commemorate the Battle of Puebla, Mexico’s victory over the French, in 1862.
The first stateside celebration was a hyper-regional event, held by Mexican miners in California who burst into songs and speeches after they received news of the historic victory. In Mexico, the holiday is celebrated in a few cities; it’s a relatively minor event. Compare that to the United States, which rings it in with nationwide celebrations, festivals, and parades that has transformed the revolutionary event into an unofficial holiday of cultural appropriative food and drink specials.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
April 22, 2021
This week’s recommended books include a local’s impressionistic rendering of Mexico City, a Chilean novel about life during the Pinochet regime, and journalistic accounts of Rwanda and the family that brought you OxyContin. There are also two essay collections (or essayistic collections), by Jenny Diski and Jo Ann Beard, along with a senator’s memoir and sparkling letters by the American poet James Merrill. Finally, a biography of the scholar Edward Said, a history of the cultural hotbed of 1970s Los Angeles and Kaitlyn Greenidge’s new novel, about a free spirit finding her way in post-Civil War New York.
Mexico City: a virtual tour through film, music, books, food and art Shaun Pett © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Starcevic/Getty Images
At a community dinner in Santa María la Ribera – one of Mexico City’s first suburbs, built in the late 1800s just west of the old centre – I met a European contortionist. He was in his 70s and used a wheelchair. Circus work had first brought him to the country decades ago, but then he’d never left. “I feel more alive here,” he told me.
This is the city’s seduction: extremes of existence can happen all on the same street corner, and render life more vivid. The Slovakian expat writer Lucia Duero describes the city as “on the edge of the moment: an intensive intensity of being. You know the world is torn apart and you hold to it tight, joyfully.”
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