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en-wikipedia-org-5181		María Ruiz de Burton - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9234	658	64	Ruiz de Burton's work is considered to be a precursor to Chicano literature, giving the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted full rights of citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was a subordinated and marginalized national minority.[1] Her background provided her a critical distance from the New England Protestant culture into which she was brought by her marriage to her husband, a powerful and influential Protestant Union Army General, Henry S. Her works challenge traditional American and Mexican American literary histories" because they "openly critiqued northeastern materialism and portrayed California's land-holding Mexicans as a genteel, white population wrongfully displaced in the United States by racism and corrupt politics.[9] She is a Chicano author not just because of her race but because her novels investigate issues at the core of Chicano/a history and literature: identification, disidentification, dual nationality, citizenship, latinidad, and gender constraints.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5181.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5181.txt