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Title: | Ye mystic krewe of historical revisionists: The origins of Tampa's Gasparilla Parade |
Author: | Bell, Gregory Jason |
Document type: | Conference paper (English) |
Source document: | From Theory to Practice 2013: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Anglophone Studies. 2015, vol. 5, p. 191-199 |
ISSN: | 1805-9899 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) |
ISBN: | 978-80-7454-450-7 |
Abstract: | Ignoring borders, which are constructs, nineteenth-century Tampa was not Southern. Instead, it was home to a polyglot society that survived frontier conditions through cooperation. In the last decade of the century, however, and especially after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Tampa's multicultural coalition gave way to New South pressures. Although whites remained a minority, they had by then acquired the socioeconomic resources to take political control of what was quickly becoming a New South city. In an effort to "sanitize" local history and celebrate their own superiority while appeasing the non-white majority, Tampa's white civic elite devised and actuated the Gasparilla Parade, which is still held annually. Most modern-day parade spectators and participants, however, remain ignorant of the parade's original purposes, a testament to the organizers' successful revision of local history. |
Full text: | http://conference.uaa.utb.cz/tp2013/ |
Physical copies: | Copies in TBU Library catalogue |
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