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, …showed first 75 words of 632 total…

…showed last 75 words of 632 total…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).