Garcia, Gloria

My name is Gloria Garcia. I am  fourth year Sociology major and Chicana/Chicano studies minor.

Being a Sociology major and Chicana/o studies minor I am constantly reading about the lack of representation of women in various fields, including Art. Even when I was trying to decide which artist to do my presentation on I noticed how little information was available on some artist but ho much was available on male artists. After reading Gaspar De Alba's piece "Out of the House...The Mirror of Malichismo", I couldn't help but wonder how the representation has changed, if at all, since this essay was published. My question for Gaspar De Alba would be how we can make our voices heard in this patriarchal society? I mean for example myself who identifies as Chicana, feminist, as a woman of color, queer, and many others. In my Sociology of gender class we have talked about inersectionality which means that our different identities are never alone,but are always working with one another. For example one cannot just be a woman,our race and class also come into play in our daily interactions with others. With so much intersectionality in the different roles we have in our lives, are of our inner voices heard louder than others?

I think that it was crucial for us to be exposed to a piece such as There’s no place like Aztlan. The best part of the piece to me is when Gaspar de Alba argues that Chicana/os are not really at home here in the Unites States, but that Mexico isn’t really home either. I had never really thought about this before. I would ask Gaspar De Alba what she thinks the identity of Chicana/o means today and what she thinks it will mean to people in the future.