The author examines the economy of oppression where the needs and fluctuations of the United States economy were the main sources of direct exploitation of Chicanos. Furthermore, the racial caste 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 for the exploitation and racial domination of third world peoples (421). Almaguer states that the relationship of Chicanos with Anglo-Saxon society is an internal colonial relationship and that the colonial status of Chicanos stems from a classic colonial conquest where the Southwest was conquered through war. When the newly acquired lands (the current American southwest) following a war against Mexico, the Anglo-Saxons were able to certify their control over the resources of the colonized lands. Their authority was made possible by the establishment of institutions that granted them conditions favorable to their exploitation and by obstacles erected to prevent minorities from accessing the political system capable of creating change, thus locking them into a state of