label it as a middle name and thus, my documents often end up misplaced or lost-which places me in a vulnerable position as an immigrant on a student visa. Even though Hernández is one of the most popular last names in the Spanish speaking world, many people in the U.S. Yet in the U.S., despite its huge Latinx population, having two last names may turn into a bureaucratic ordeal. Like millions of individuals in the Southwest of Europe and Latin America, I have two family names-Hernández Ojeda.
In this performance autoethnography, I reflect upon the ways in which my last name becomes a space of compliance and resistance to white supremacy in the U.S. Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, May 2018.
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