Chicanos Gender and Class in the United States

Chicanos Gender and Class in the United States
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Chicanos Gender and Class in the United States
In the film The Milagro Beanfield War, Jose Mondragon is a hero to the community members but a bandit to the developers due to a conflict of interest revolving around water use. According to Jose Mondragon, the water initially belonged to the community, and thus he had the right to use it without the Anglo land development firm’s permission. The development firm had introduced property rights in the area, and the locals experienced difficulty accessing sufficient water to irrigate their agricultural fields. The development firm plans to construct a leisure-time project to attract the affluent to the jurisdiction, raise taxes, and undermine the livelihoods of the already dilapidated communities. Mondragon becomes a hero by diverting the water for personal irrigation as other community members were afraid to take such actions. The developer viewed Mondragon as a bandit because he hijacked their project, prompti...