Chicana Feminists
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/206712
2024-03-29T13:49:13ZHernandez, Leticia (audio interview #3 of 3)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215318
Hernandez, Leticia (audio interview #3 of 3)
Hernandez, Leticia (b. 1950 - ); Blackwell, Maylei, Interviewer
INTERVIEW DISCRIPTION - This is the third of three interviews with Leticia Hernandez conducted as part of a project on Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. Hernandez was very forthcoming and helpful in the interview, which was recorded in her office at the CSU headquarters.
7/28/1992
SUBJECT BIO - Leticia Hernandez was active in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc at CSULB and worked on the group's newspaper by the same name. She was involved in Las Mujeres de Longo (Women of Long Beach). Bilingual by the age of three, Hernandez initially planned to become a translator. She changed her plans, however, after EOP recruiters from CSULB offered her housing and/or a scholarship. In short order, Hernandez joined UMAS (which later became MEChA). The conflicts in UMAS, particularly around the issue of Chicana feminism, led Hernandez to join other women in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. From 1970-1973, Hernandez turned her attention to Ballet Folklorico, organizing community performances. After she married in 1979, she moved to Washington, DC with her husband and began working for Estaban Torres, eventually becoming his District Director. After her divorce and a sojourn in Atlanta, Georgia, she returned to California and in 1992 began working in the CSU Chancellor's office.
TOPICS - Family history of Leticia Hernandez; early family life in East Los Angeles; educational aspirations to attend college; struggles in secondary school; entrance to California State University, Long Beach; participation in Educational Outreach Program; involvement with Chicano movement; adapting to college life; learning about reproductive health; initial involvement with United Mexican American Students. Hernandez’s early college years; struggles with academic studies; involvement with United Mexican American Students; dropping out of school; organizing Ballet Folklorico; experiencing sexual discrimination in UMAS and MEChA; working with the Educational Outreach Program; activism in the Long Beach community; establishment of the Chicano Studies Program; adjusting to freedom in college; struggles over female gender roles. Hernandez’s involvement with farm workers and grape boycott; marching in a United Farm Workers protest at Delano; effects of Reagan Era on Chicano Movement; tracing the fading Chicano Movement.
2020-03-23T00:00:00ZHernandez, Leticia (audio interview #2 of 3)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215316
Hernandez, Leticia (audio interview #2 of 3)
Hernandez, Leticia (b. 1950 - ); Blackwell, Maylei, Interviewer
INTERVIEW DISCRIPTION - This is the second of three interviews with Leticia Hernandez conducted as part of a project on Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. Hernandez was very forthcoming and helpful in the interview, which was recorded in her office at the CSU headquarters.
7/28/1992
SUBJECT BIO - Leticia Hernandez was active in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc at CSULB and worked on the group's newspaper by the same name. She was involved in Las Mujeres de Longo (Women of Long Beach). Bilingual by the age of three, Hernandez initially planned to become a translator. She changed her plans, however, after EOP recruiters from CSULB offered her housing and/or a scholarship. In short order, Hernandez joined UMAS (which later became MEChA). The conflicts in UMAS, particularly around the issue of Chicana feminism, led Hernandez to join other women in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. From 1970-1973, Hernandez turned her attention to Ballet Folklorico, organizing community performances. After she married in 1979, she moved to Washington, DC with her husband and began working for Estaban Torres, eventually becoming his District Director. After her divorce and a sojourn in Atlanta, Georgia, she returned to California and in 1992 began working in the CSU Chancellor's office.
TOPICS - Family history of Leticia Hernandez; early family life in East Los Angeles; educational aspirations to attend college; struggles in secondary school; entrance to California State University, Long Beach; participation in Educational Outreach Program; involvement with Chicano movement; adapting to college life; learning about reproductive health; initial involvement with United Mexican American Students. Hernandez’s early college years; struggles with academic studies; involvement with United Mexican American Students; dropping out of school; organizing Ballet Folklorico; experiencing sexual discrimination in UMAS and MEChA; working with the Educational Outreach Program; activism in the Long Beach community; establishment of the Chicano Studies Program; adjusting to freedom in college; struggles over female gender roles. Hernandez’s involvement with farm workers and grape boycott; marching in a United Farm Workers protest at Delano; effects of Reagan Era on Chicano Movement; tracing the fading Chicano Movement.
2020-03-23T00:00:00ZHernandez, Leticia (audio interview #1 of 3)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215314
Hernandez, Leticia (audio interview #1 of 3)
Hernandez, Leticia (b. 1950 - ); Blackwell, Maylei, Interviewer
INTERVIEW DISCRIPTION - This is the first of three interviews with Leticia Hernandez conducted as part of a project on Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. Hernandez was very forthcoming and helpful in the interview, which was recorded in her office at the CSU headquarters.
7/28/1992
SUBJECT BIO - Leticia Hernandez was active in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc at CSULB and worked on the group's newspaper by the same name. She was involved in Las Mujeres de Longo (Women of Long Beach).
Bilingual by the age of three, Hernandez initially planned to become a translator. She changed her plans, however, after EOP recruiters from CSULB offered her housing and/or a scholarship. In short order, Hernandez joined UMAS (which later became MEChA). The conflicts in UMAS, particularly around the issue of Chicana feminism, led Hernandez to join other women in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc.
From 1970-1973, Hernandez turned her attention to Ballet Folklorico, organizing community performances. After she married in 1979, she moved to Washington, DC with her husband and began working for Estaban Torres, eventually becoming his District Director. After her divorce and a sojourn in Atlanta, Georgia, she returned to California and in 1992 began working in the CSU Chancellor's office.
TOPICS - Family history of Leticia Hernandez; early family life in East Los Angeles; educational aspirations to attend college; struggles in secondary school; entrance to California State University, Long Beach; participation in Educational Outreach Program; involvement with Chicano movement; adapting to college life; learning about reproductive health; initial involvement with United Mexican American Students. Hernandez’s early college years; struggles with academic studies; involvement with United Mexican American Students; dropping out of school; organizing Ballet Folklorico; experiencing sexual discrimination in UMAS and MEChA; working with the Educational Outreach Program; activism in the Long Beach community; establishment of the Chicano Studies Program; adjusting to freedom in college; struggles over female gender roles. Hernandez’s involvement with farm workers and grape boycott; marching in a United Farm Workers protest at Delano; effects of Reagan Era on Chicano Movement; tracing the fading Chicano Movement.
2020-03-23T00:00:00ZSanchez, Corinne (audio interview #2 of 2)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215308
Sanchez, Corinne (audio interview #2 of 2)
Blackwell, Maylei, Interviewer; Sanchez, Corinne (b. 1947 - )
INTERVIEW DISCRIPTION - This is the second of two interviews with Corinne Sanchez conducted as part of a a project on Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. The interview, which was conducted at her El Proyecto office, took place several years after the other Hijas interviews were conducted. Although it had been difficult to arrange the interview, she was forthcoming and helpful.
1/1/1995
SUBJECT BIO - Corinne Sanchez was an activist in Hijas de Cuauhtemoc while she was a student at CSULB and was one of the founders of the La Raza newspaper. Later, from 1974-1978, she served as the Associate Director of the Chicana Service Action Center (CSAC). One of ten children in a very traditional family, Sanchez was outspoken from childhood. She attended San Bernardino Community College, 1965-1968, during which time she joined sororities. After she transferred to CSULB to major in PE, she became involved in UMAS and the creation of Chicano Studies. Sanchez joined with other women from UMAS (later MEChA) who formed Hijas de Cuauhtemoc. Nevertheless, in 1969, the divisiveness in the Chicano student movement at CSULB contributed to Sanchez's decision to drop out of college for one year. In 1974, Sanchez became the Associate Director of Chicana Service Action Center and remained there for four years until she went to law school. She joined El Proyecto del Barrio at that time; and, later, in 1992, she began her family law practice, focusing particularly on domestic violence.
TOPICS - Chicana studies; Chicano Studies Department; resources and pedagogy, Chicana history; sexism and racism; exploring Chicano identity; and challenging traditional gender roles;lack of women in the Chicano Studies Department; Claremont Graduate School; teaching at CSULA; joining the faculty at CSULB; experience with Gloria Molina; sexism; conflicts with Chicana identity; school desegregation; and renaming department as Chicano/Latino Studies;
2020-03-23T00:00:00Z