Jurado, Eliana (Eliana)

Hello all, my name is Eliana Jurado and I am a fourth year Sociology and Chicana/Chicano Studies major. My preferred pronouns are she/her/hers. I am currently a research assistant at UCLA Ties for Families and within this research lab we focus on the long-term impact adoption has on children’s development and on later adult lives. My research interests are child development, cognition, social, and educational development within the first five years of a child’s life. My interest is within this field because I find that children’s development is often a very underrepresented field given that most believe that it is not a crucial developmental stage since they will receive all the help and skills they will need in school; but this is not the case. 

            Within this week’s reading I noticed a common trend of how there are no “great genius” artists that are Latina, let alone just women in general, and it made me think why is this the case? While reading “Conditions for Producing Chicana Art,” by Sybil Venegas they discussed a very key reason as to why Latina women have not been able to participate in become “genius” artists. Due to machismo, gender roles, and women having to tend for their families they have been set back from being able to achieve their goals. Additionally, another reason I thought Latina women have been set back from being able to become “great genius artists” is because in most Latino culture, parents always try to push their children to become doctors or engineers instead of chasing their passions. In most Latino culture, I have noticed they do not consider the arts as a real career, which I believe is probably why more Latina women have been hesitant from chasing a passion of become artists.