Luis Mota Flores

                Hello everyone,

My name is Luis Mota Flores, I am a transferred to UCLA and my major is Chicana/o studies. In my free time I like to stay active, I enjoy things like playing sports or going out to discover new places. I am supper excited about this quarter and this class.

 After I read the article “Out of the House, the Halo and the Whore’s Mask: The Mirror of Malinchismo” from the book titled Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s House: Cultural Politics and CARA Exhibition by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, a great number of ideas, emotions, and feelings came to my mind, along with some questions. I would like to ask Professor Gaspar de Alba; Chicanas have a strong social thought, awareness and take action through art like murals, sculptures, paintings, and even community gatherings etc. Looking ahead are they also paying close attention into, and are becoming aware of the health of Latino families, and how they are thriving?  Is much needed that a couple performs their parts as parents, and  raise healthy children, I see the Latino family changing and sometimes it is not for the good, for example according to the “National Healthy Marriage Resource Center” Hispanics have the highest rates of never marrying.

 In the article “There’s No Place Like Aztlan: Embodied Aesthetic in Chicana Art” Aztlan is mentioned as the Southwestern part of the United States of America it also explains views on how the culture of the Chicanas and Chicanos is changing, I would like to ask if the change might be due to continued oppression on the Mexican/Chicano/a culture, making way for an entire culture to diminish in the present decade? Just like in the Hernan Cortez-era when the goal was to make the native people learn Christianity and become so called civilized through oppression and murder. “Now is the problem of the oppression to eliminate the culture and language of the Chicanas and Chicanos?” It is frighten to me to see how some Chicanas and Chicanos are falling for the diminishing of their ancestors culture, It is almost like they do not want to be part of history they want to be history.