{"id":7072,"date":"2023-12-12T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2023-12-10T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:13:07","slug":"students-in-rodriguezs-latinx-us-history-class-make-altar-for-dia-de-los-muertos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/12\/12\/students-in-rodriguezs-latinx-us-history-class-make-altar-for-dia-de-los-muertos\/","title":{"rendered":"Students in Rodriguez&#8217;s &#8216;LatinX US History&#8217; Class Make Altar for D\u00eda de los Muertos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Day-of-the-Dead2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Day-of-the-Dead2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Day-of-the-Dead2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Day-of-the-Dead2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Day-of-the-Dead2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Day-of-the-Dead2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Earlier this semester students in <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/rodriguez-iliana-yamileth.html\">Dr. Yami Rodriguez&#8217;s<\/a> course &#8220;LatinX US History&#8221; produced an altar for D\u00eda de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, on the first floor of Bowden Hall. Practiced in Mexico, especially, and throughout other Latin American countries, these altars are meant to celebrate loved ones who have passed and invite them to reunite with those still living. The &#8220;LatinX US History&#8221; course invited all to participate in the practice by displaying a picture or making an offering to a loved one. Read more about this wonderful project below.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Dia-De-Los-Muertos-1-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Dia-De-Los-Muertos-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Dia-De-Los-Muertos-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/12\/Dia-De-Los-Muertos-1.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this semester students in Dr. Yami Rodriguez&#8217;s course &#8220;LatinX US History&#8221; produced an altar for D\u00eda de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, on the first floor of Bowden Hall. Practiced in Mexico, especially, and throughout other Latin American countries, these altars are meant to celebrate loved ones who have passed and invite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiential-learning","category-faculty","category-teaching","category-undergraduate-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}