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1) Amparo
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Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832 95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores...
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The 'amparo' suit is a Mexican legal institution similar in its effects to such Anglo-American procedures as habeas corpus, error, and the various forms of injunctive relief. It has undergone a long evolution since it was incorporated into the Constitution of 1857. Today, its principal purpose is to protect private individuals in the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by the first twenty-nine articles of the Constitution. The first part of Richard...
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"Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered California nineteenth-century novelist, struggled against the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Latinos in the southwestern territories of the United States. Not only was she the first Latina novelist to write in English, but her circumstances, ambition and resolve took her into circles where relatively few women could venture." "Conflicts of Interest captures the complex...
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