Chicano Pride In Trinidad Sanchez's Why Am I So Brown
The poem “Why Am I So Brown?” by Trinidad Sanchez Jr. convey his message of Chicano pride through the use of allusion. Allusion is making a reference to something that is somehow related. Sanchez makes references to the Chicano Rights Movement and La Virgen de Guadalupe. Sanchez also states, “It is the color of Chicana women—leaders/madres of Chicano warriors” (Sanchez 5.1-2). Here Sanchez makes a reference to the Chicano Rights Movement from the 60s. There should be proudness in brown skin tone. Mothers put their kids at risk. It shows strength. Those with brown skin tone have the honor of looking like those mothers. The idea of looking like people who put themselves in danger in order for other do have to do the same should give Chicanos