Nario, Alexandra (Alexandra)

 Hello everyone!

My name is Alexandra Nario with my pronouns being she/her/hers. You can call me Alexandra, Ale or Alex. I have no preference so just refer to me however it feels right for you. I am a fourth-year student from Long Beach, CA with a Sociology major and minor in environmental systems and society. I am a few classes away from fulfilling my major as well as my minor. I heard from previous UCLA alumni's that WAC class were interesting and enjoyable. I had some spare units that I wanted to use for classes that do not pertain to my major nor minor, so my alumni recommended me to take this class before I graduated. I really enjoyed the Chicana/o studies classes I have previously taken so I am extremely excited to take this Chicanx Latinx Arts and Artist course.

Looking over the reading for this week, !Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now by Carmen Ramos, I believe it highlights well some of the topics that will become foundational for understanding the course. The reading redefines revolution and its relationship to the Chicano culture and expressive art. Ramos states that the civil rights movement established a new generation of Chicanx activist, artist and thinkers whom challenged the historical frameworks that gave rise to marginalization and misrepresented the Chicano community. (40) Chicanx artist, like Yolanda Lopez, reestablished these misrepresented narratives and critiqued the immigration program through her recreation of  "Whose the illegal alien, pilgrim?" (41). Art has the ability to be used as a cause for revolution and a effect as well. I recently took a class call the Sociology of Collective Behavior, where I learned a common effect that comes from a movement is culture. I think this reading is a perfect example of  that effect since these different artist became part of this artist revolution with the result being a new understanding for what it means to be part of this Chicano Culture and identity.