Red Men, Princess Pocahontas, and George Washington: Harmonizing Race Relations in Laredo at the Turn of the Century

Abstract

In 1898, a group of elite Anglo Americans and Texas Mexicans joined together to celebrate George Washington's birthday on the U. S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. This article describes how the week-long festivities helped construct and project an image of Anglo-Mexican racial harmony and how the Laredo elite created an inclusive concept of Americanization at the same time it cast African Americans and Indians as “savage” outsiders.

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