{"id":134,"date":"2012-05-21T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/previous\/community-education-family-tradition-latinos-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:58:58","slug":"latinos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/previous\/latinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Community, Education, Family, Tradition: Latinos in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

August – November 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Join us for opening of the exhibit. It will be an afternoon of food (Tres Leches cake and Pan Dulce), music and an interactive presentation of traditional Latino paper arts. Herminia Albarr\u00e1n Romero, a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award honoree, will travel from San Francisco to teach the art papel picado<\/em> (paper-cutting) for Dia De Los Muertos altars.<\/span><\/div>\n

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
\n12:30 pm \u2013 2:30 pm
\nMain Library
\nNorth Exhibition Hall<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The \u201cCommunity, Education, Family, Tradition: Latinos in Iowa\u201d exhibit is a documentation and celebration of the history of Latinos in Iowa. By emphasizing four aspects of the Latino experience the exhibit shines a light on a community that is experiencing a historic growth in the state. The Latino population in 2006\u2014nearly 120,000\u2014represents an increase of 30% since 2000.<\/p>\n

Few people realize that Latinos began arriving in Iowa as early as the 1880s and that by the 1910s and 1920s boxcar communities had grown up near railroad yards in towns such as Fort Madison, Davenport, and Bettendorf. To further explain this history the exhibit features selected items from Mujeres Latinas<\/em><\/a>, an Iowa Women\u2019s Archives initiative to document the lives of Iowa Latinas, their families and the history of their communities.<\/p>\n

The exhibit also highlights the Latino Native American Cultural Center (formerly the Chicano Indian American Cultural House, established 1971) which has been central to political activism at the University of Iowa for many years. The LNACC was founded in the summer of 1971 by three students: Tony Zavala, Ruth Pushetonequa and Rusty Barcel\u00f3. At the 25th anniversary of the LNACC, Rusty Barcel\u00f3 explained the importance of the LNACC by saying, \u201cIt was because of the cultural center that I and others survived as students, because of the important space we were provided with\u2014a space which embraced who we were without explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LatinasThe University of Iowa Latino students, faculty and alumni, as well as a look at the current Latino community in Iowa are another feature of the exhibit. The exhibit will be displayed from late August to November which coincides with two Latino celebrations. Latino Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries\u2014Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico declared its independence on September 16 and Chile on September 18. The Day of the Dead is celebrated November 1st and 2nd. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and relatives who have died. To commemorate the Day of the Dead an altar will be built as part of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The \u201cCommunity, Education, Family, Tradition: Latinos in Iowa\u201d exhibition committee hopes you enjoy the exhibit and learn something new about the history of the Latino community in Iowa.<\/p>\n

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Acknowledgements<\/span>
\nExhibit Planning<\/strong>
\nRachel Garza Carre\u00f3n (Chair), Gabriel J. Duque, Von Yeager, Angela Murillo, and Evelyn Acosta-Weirich<\/p>\n

Installation Assistance<\/strong>
\nBill Voss and Kristin Baum<\/p>\n

Graphic Design<\/strong>
\nRachel Garza Carre\u00f3n<\/p>\n

Exhibition Poster<\/strong>
\nJesse Garza Carre\u00f3n<\/p>\n

Display photos and materials for the Latino Native American Cultural Center portion of the exhibit are from the University of Iowa Archives, Department of Special Collections: Records of the Latino-Native American Cultural Center (RG 02.03.07)<\/a><\/p>\n

Display photos and materials from the Mujeres Latinas<\/em> Project and LULAC portion of the exhibit are from the Iowa Women’s Archives.<\/p>\n

Special Thanks<\/strong>
\nTeresa Garcia, Preservation, Special Collections and University Archives, Iowa Women\u2019s Archives, Latino Native American Cultural Center, Facilities, Map Collection, Council on the Status of Latinos, Association of Latino’s Moving Ahead, Latino Law Students Association, and Latina\/o Graduate Student Association , Kristi Robinson-Bontrager, Jamblyn, Claudia Espinoza, Daniel Mendez, and Olga Rua<\/p>\n

For questions or comments please contact at Rachel Garza Carre\u00f3n<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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