Fuerzas de orden público, tribunales de justicia y chicanosde la intimidación legal existente a la re-creación en la narrativa de Rudolfo Anaya

  1. Cañero Serrano, Julio
Zeitschrift:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

ISSN: 0211-5913

Datum der Publikation: 2002

Nummer: 45

Seiten: 47-66

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

Zusammenfassung

Chicanos have systematically faced a type of racism and discrimination in the United States not very different from that experienced in the territories colonized by the European countries. Legal intimidation, among other things, has helped to consider this minority as an internally colonized people. U.S. police forces and magistrates have premeditatedly intimidated and administered a biased justice to this minority with a clear goal: Keeping Mexican Americans as an internally colonized group. The reality of an internal colony presents Chicano authors, and New Mexican writer Rudolfo Anaya is not an exception, with a great variety of examples to re-create legal intimidation in their works