Name: MACRI Talk - Alamo Mythology and Mexican American Identity
Start: 2026-03-07T14:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-03-07T15:30:00-06:00
Location: Bazan Branch Library

MACRI Talk - Alamo Mythology and Mexican American Identity

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. In the year of this milestone, we are called to reflect: What does the United States semiquincentennial mean to Mexican Americans? How have Mexican Americans shaped this country, and what do we want to see for our communities in the future?
Join us for the third of a series of special MACRI Talks for America 250, the national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. In this series, we will highlight the ways Mexican Americans have been essential threads to the national fabric. The series continues with Dr. Richard Flores, San Antonio native and expert in the folklore and culture of Greater Mexico, who will present on Alamo Mythology and Mexican American Identity. How did the Alamo become such a strong symbol in our national identity? How have the meanings assigned to the Alamo over time shaped the lives and identities of people of Mexican descent in Texas?
Join us to explore these and other important questions!
Saturday, March 7, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bazan Library | 2200 W Commerce Street, San Antonio, TX 78207
RSVP at https://www.mysapl.org/Events-News/Events-Calendar/id/baz?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D193708964
This program is presented by MACRI and the San Antonio Public Library Latino Collection and Resource Center.

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About our guest
Richard Flores is the former Deputy to the President for Academic Priorities and Professor of Anthropology and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His scholarship includes the areas of historical and cultural anthropology and performance studies. He is a native of San Antonio, Texas, and received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. He is the author of Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol (University of Texas Press, 2002), Los Pastores: History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherd’s Play of South Texas (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), editor of Adina De Zavala’s, History and Legends of the Alamo (Arte Público Press, 1996).

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MACRI's programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, Bexar County, the Mellon Foundation, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Spurs Give, and individual donors like you! Gracias!
As always, views and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of the MACRI, its staff, board, or funders.