New Mexico Historical Review Volume 61 Number 4 Article 2 10-1-1986 Spanish Heritage and Ethnic Protest in New Mexico: The Anti- Fraternity Bill of 1933 Phillip B. Gonzales Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr Recommended Citation Gonzales, Phillip B.. "Spanish Heritage and Ethnic Protest in New Mexico: The Anti-Fraternity Bill of 1933." New Mexico Historical Review 61, 4 (1986). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol61/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Historical Review by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Spanish Heritage and Ethnic Protest in New Mexico: The Anti-Fraternity Bill of 1933 PHILLIP B, GONZALES In 1944, Kyle Crichton highlighted in fiction the dilemma of aspiring urban Hispanos in New Mexico, The Proud People, set in 1941, centers on the Esquivel side of the Esquivel-Lejanza family, The Esquivels are proudest of the fact that their ancestry traces all the way back to Juan de Onate's founding of New Mexico, A major theme in the novel's social realism is New Mexico's distinctive "Spanish-American" sensibility, The Esquivels, however, experience rough adjustment in a rapidly changing present. Crichton depicted the tensions of ethnic attachment, aims of middle class integration, and the obstacles presented by racial preju dice, One dramatic episode in The Proud People begins when Lolita transfers from a college in