The author examines the economics of oppression in which the needs and fluctuations of the United States economy were the primary sources of direct exploitation of the Chicanos. Furthermore, the caste-racial nature of labor under colonization had its impact on the exploitation of Chicanos due to economic subjugation by Capital (431). Interestingly, discrimination and racism were not the cause of oppression, but rather the justification of exploitation and racial domination of Third World peoples (421). Almaguer asserts that the Chicano's relationship with Anglo society is internal colonial, and the Chicano's colonial status derives from a classic colonial conquest in which the Southwest was conquered through warfare. When newly acquired land (the present-day American Southwest) from a war with Mexico, the Anglo-Saxons were able to certify their control over the resources of the colonized lands. Their authority was made possible by the creation of institutions that granted them conditions favorable to exploitation and by the construction of obstacles to keep minorities from accessing the political system that can create change, thus trapping them in a state of