Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

The Texas Identity Program at The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum includes a guided tour of the Museum’s core exhibit asking visitors to consider and discuss their own constructions of Texan identity as it relates to migration and immigration. Participants will use content learned throughout the exhibit to explore questions that connect Texas history with local immigration topics, such as:

How has Texas identity been shaped by those who did and did not have a voice?

What do you think the future of Texas identity will be as new groups of people obtain more visibility and voice?

How have changing Texas demographics and migratory patterns altered your ideas of a Texas identity?

How do you define migration, and do you see migration today as shifting Texas’ identity?

The museum will offer twenty public programs addressing these larger questions on immigration and Texas identity. Additionally, in conjunction with Austin’s celebration of World Refugee Day, the museum will work with refugee service organizations to develop ESL curricula that will explore ideas of identity and acculturation guided by a central question: How can everyone’s unique cultural diversity add to and complicate the idea of what it means to be a Texan?