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Join Professor Omar Valerio-Jiménez (History, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a presentation on his publication Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory and Citizenship (2024), featuring comments from Professor Karl Jacoby. In this text, Omar Valerio-Jiménez addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories of conquest according to their contemporary social and political contexts. The book also examines collective memories in the US and Mexico to illustrate transnational influences on Mexican Americans and to demonstrate how community and national memories can be used strategically to advance political agendas.
