Anthro

Jacqiline M. Martinez’s Phenomonology of Chicana Experience & Identity is a an account of her life taken from a semiotic phenomenological standpoint. She grew the child of a Mexican but was raised as a white person. While at the same time she was a Mestiza. She prides herself on being just that, a mix between the races. Based on the latter, she derives her citation offered in the question. Being partly from an oppressed race, …

…be undergoing an intersubjective violence emanating from the refusal of the dominant culture to accept her racial make up. That she claims that the Mestiza is in a position that feels like, “an attack on ourselves and our beliefs as a threat and we attempt to block with a counterstance.” She goes on to state that her world will be locked in a mortal combat….where we are reduced to the common denominator of violence.” (90).