Dr. Alexandro Hernández

Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Alexandro D. Hernández is an Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles. Dr. Hernández is an active performer of punk and Mexican traditional music, is a founding member of artcore punk band ¡Aparato! (IG: @aparatomusic) and El Mariachi Manchester (a mariachi tribute to Morrissey and The Smiths) and has shared the stage with celebrated indigenous artists Buffy Sainte-Marie and DJ Shub. He has collaborated with quintessential Chicano rock band Los Lobos and is a featured musician on José Luís Orozco's Grammy-nominated Smithsonian Folkways release ¡Come bien! Eat Right!. His research on the son jarocho is featured on National Public Radio’s Alt.Latino: With Gutiars Like Machetes: Son Jarocho 101 and his music has reached NPR's "Top 100 Songs" list. Hernández received a PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA, is a Smithsonian predoctoral and postdoctoral Fellow and is published in the anthology Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism, The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Smithsonian Folkways and on the upcoming reader Decolonizing Education Through Music.