TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flores,Richard R.
TI  - Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol 
T2  - CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series
SN  - 9780292796478
U1  - 976.4/03 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Memory
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Texas
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Symbolism
KW  - Whites
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Texas Modern --; Part one The Alamo as Place, 1836 –1905 --; Chapter 2 History, Memory-Place, and Silence: --; Chapter 3 From San Fernando de Béxar to the Alamo City: --; Chapter 4 From Private Visions to Public Culture: --; Part two The Alamo as Project, 1890 –1960 --; Chapter 5 Cinematic Images: --; Chapter 6 Why Does Davy Live? --; Conclusion The Alamo as Tex(Mex) Master Symbol of Modernity --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "Remember the Alamo!" reverberates through Texas history and culture, but what exactly are we remembering? Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Why did the historical battle of 1836 undergo this metamorphosis in memory and mythology to become such a potent master symbol in Texan and American culture? In this probing book, Richard Flores seeks to answer that question by examining how the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. In the first part of the book, he looks at how the attempts of heritage society members and political leaders to define the Alamo as a place have reflected struggles within Texas society over the place and status of Anglos and Mexicans. In the second part, he explores how Alamo movies and the transformation of Davy Crockett into an Alamo hero/martyr have advanced deeply racialized, ambiguous, and even invented understandings of the past
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/725393
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292796478
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292796478/original
ER  -