The American Civil War Origins of Cinco de Mayo
It is time to take Cinco de Mayo back from drunken revelers wearing sarapes and straw sombreros, and return it to its origins as a…
Autor: David Hayes Bautista
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the author of the book upon which this commentary is based, "El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition (University of California Press, 2012). He can be reached at [email protected].