Hernandez, Jaclyn

Hello everyone, my name is Jackie Hernandez. I’m from the city of Oxnard, which is a bit north from here (towards Santa Barbara). It’s located in Ventura County and has a dense Latino population. English has been the primary language spoken in my household all of my life. Despite this, my siblings and I managed to learn Spanish  (we’re still not anywhere close to being fluent) and have managed to integrate our Mexican heritage into our daily lives. This is my third year at UCLA and I am majoring in English.

There’s No Place Like Aztlán: Body Aesthetics in Chicana Art

- Alicia Gaspar de Alba expands on the aesthetic gateways that Chicano/a artists have used in order to cope with their sense of lost wholeness, the place that defines who they are as individuals.

- My question pertains to the “historical amnesia” of Aztlán. Since locations are continuously shifting identity, then won’t there come a point in the future (maybe even the near future) where the history will be almost wholly forgotten? I only say this because I personally didn’t learn about this significant historical event until high school, or so. I fear for Aztlán's future. 

Out of the House, the Halo, and the Whore’s Mask

- This is somewhat of both a comment and question for this next article; how could the men of the Chicano movement condemn women of being traitors in the Chicano movement if they themselves were acting like the pigs and cocks in Animal Farm? Ms. Gaspar de Alba discusses the inequity that these Chicanas faced within the movement that they initially thought were a part of. How could such a system withstand in such a way? Maybe I’m just being too much of a feminist at the moment, but I don’t understand the Chicanos’ logic during that crucial time.