Sword and Cross in San Antonio: Reviving the Spanish Conquest in Depression-Era News Coverage

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Abstract

Remembering and capitalizing on San Antonio's Spanish colonial empire became a pastime and a policy of the Alamo city and its dominant English-language newspaper during the Great Depression. While Spanish nostalgia had antecedents in the late nineteenth century's conservation sensibilities, it reached an apogee in San Antonio during the years 1929 through 1934. This period coincided with the deepest recessionary period of the Depression decade, a time when anti-immigrant sentiment and anti-Mexican sentiment flourished. This article comparatively examines the way English-and Spanish-language daily newspaper coverage constructed the reality of San Antonio's Spanish-speaking founders at a time when their descendants, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, were often reviled and subject to repatriation.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)198-207
Number of pages10
JournalJournalism history
Volume39
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

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