{"id":44304,"date":"2017-08-30T20:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=44304"},"modified":"2017-09-20T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:33:44","slug":"acc-honors-hispanic-heritage-at-diez-y-seis-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/30\/acc-honors-hispanic-heritage-at-diez-y-seis-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC honors Hispanic Heritage at D\u00edez y Seis celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with its 10<sup>th<\/sup> annual D\u00edez y Seis event Thursday, September 14, from noon to 1 p.m. at Riverside Campus (1020 Grove Blvd.).<\/p>\n<p>Longtime state legislator Gonzalo Barrientos, who represented Travis County in the Senate and House from 1975 to 2007, will serve as guest speaker. UT history professor Dr. Emilio Zamora will be among the special guests.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural celebration commemorates Mexico\u2019s declaration of independence and Texas\u2019 first Independence Day. Barrientos and local historians will pay tribute to the cultural, historical, and political contributions of Tejanos, Mexican-Americans, and other Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remember the efforts of a group of freedom-loving Tejanos in San Antonio who demanded their independence from Spain,\u201d says Dr. Mariano Diaz-Miranda, ACC professor of history and director of the Latino\/Latin American Studies Center (El Centro). \u201cHistory plays an important role in the values and traditions important to surrounding communities. The flame of freedom lit by D\u00edez y Seis was burning in Texas long before 1836.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guests will enjoy the rhythmic steps of Roy Lozano\u2019s Ballet Folklorico and musical entertainment from Johnny Degollado y su Conjunto and Mariachi Estrella.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public. It is presented by the ACC Center for Public Policy &amp; Political Studies and El Centro.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/cppps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austincc.edu\/cppp<\/a>s\u00a0or call 512-223-7050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with its 10th annual D\u00edez y Seis event Thursday, September 14, from noon to 1 p.m. at Riverside Campus (1020 Grove Blvd.). Longtime state legislator Gonzalo Barrientos, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/08\/30\/acc-honors-hispanic-heritage-at-diez-y-seis-celebration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934,"featured_media":33769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17],"tags":[1678,901,448,1677,449,72,400,1445],"class_list":["post-44304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","tag-acc-center-for-public-policy-political-studies","tag-ballet-folklorico","tag-diez-y-seis","tag-dr-emilio-zamora","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-history","tag-riverside-campus","tag-tradition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}