{"id":278,"date":"2007-09-18T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T17:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/18\/hispanic-heritage-month-exhibit-on-display\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:23:10","slug":"hispanic-heritage-month-exhibit-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/18\/hispanic-heritage-month-exhibit-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/latinas,179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/128.255.6.211\/news\/files\/2007\/09\/icecream-mujeres.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icecream-mujeres.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"216\" height=\"159\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual event celebrating the culture and traditions of U.S. residents who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean, as well as the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Hispanic community in Iowa is experiencing an exciting time of change as it begins historic growth in the state.\u00a0 The Hispanic population in 2006\u2014nearly 115,000\u2014represents an increase of 28% since 2000.\u00a0 Hispanic enrollment at the University of Iowa during the spring term in 2007 was 767.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/09\/hhm1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hhm1.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" \/>The Main Library is hosting an exhibit for the 2007 Hispanic Heritage Month.\u00a0 It is located across from the Information Desk, near the elevator. The display features selected items from the Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/mujeres\">Mujeres Latinas<\/a>&#8221; project and highlights University of Iowa Hispanic and Latina\/o students, faculty and alumni, as well as resources available in the Main Library about the Hispanic and Latina\/o experience.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the exhibit contact Rachel Garza Carre\u00f3n at <a href=\"mailto:rachel-carreon@uiowa.edu\">rachel-carreon@uiowa.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual event celebrating the culture and traditions of U.S. residents who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean, as well as the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States. The Hispanic community in Iowa is experiencing an exciting<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2007\/09\/18\/hispanic-heritage-month-exhibit-on-display\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit on Display&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}