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Tiempo MACCnífico: Celebrating Space, Place, and Community

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Language Arts And English +4 Age Levels Preschool (0 to 4 years old), Primary (5 to 8 years old), Post-Secondary, Adults, High School (16 to 18 years old)

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The Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) opened in 2007 however, the idea for a center to celebrate Mexican American arts and cultural heritage developed in the turbulent 1970s as Mexican Americans were fighting for civil rights and first-class citizenship throughout the United States. The need for a cultural center rose out of the marginalization and exclusion of Mexican American cultural heritage in mainstream schooling as well as social and institutional racism that denied Mexican Americans access to equal learning facilities as well as arts and performance spaces. Funding for the construction of the first stage of the facility in 1998 and for the construction of Phase 1A which was completed in 2010. In 2011, The MACC was renamed after Emma Serrato Barrientos, a community leader and activist, for all her years of service in establishing the center which is now called the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican…

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