Delgado, Maria

My name is Maria Delgado. I am a fourth year, Chicano/Chicana studies and Political Science double major with a minor in Labor and Workplace Studies.

There is no place like Aztlan: Embodied Aesthetics in Chicana Art.

In her Article, Gaspar De Alba, speaks in the context of Chicana artists finding their form of expression in their bodies. Historically, Chinanos have not felt as if they belonged and had a sense of exile. Thus, they have found their place of art to be Aztlan, meanwhile Chicanas had to find another place to express their art - which then became their body. 

My question for Gaspar De Alba is how do we address the issues that the majority will raise in regards to women using their body as a form of expression? Yes, we as scholars get why they do this but the majority will see this just as another way in which women are objectifying them selves.

Out of The House The Halo and the Whores Mask; The Mirror Of Malinchismo

In her article, Gaspar De Alba, addresses the struggles women had to face during the unfolding of the Chicano Movement. In specific she describes the challenges that gender created and how they continued to infiltrate into the world of art and women artist themselves. She provides numerous examples on the inequalities that Chicana artist faced continue to face in an art world over represented by men. 

My question to Gaspar De Alba is in a larger struggle of class and race. How do we learn to incorporate gender into these struggles that have not considered this particular intersectionality? Moreover can such a thing be possible given the fact that historically we have all complied with the status quo, that is treating women as second class citizens or worse.