The background of the house on Mango Street.

1848 After the US-Mexico War, with a large number of Mexicans moving to the United States to start their lives, a new literary form, Chicano Literature, gradually appeared after the constant collision between Mexican thinking and American native traditions. The birth of The House on Mango Street marks the blooming of a beautiful and poetic flower in the history of Chicano literature.

In the 1960s, racial discrimination still existed in the United States. Debt crisis and inflation in Latin American countries in 1980s, peso crisis in Mexico in 1990s, etc. Have become factors that crowd out Hispanic immigrants. The economic recovery in the 1980s and the economic growth from 1990s to 2000 in the United States became the factors that "sucked" Hispanic immigrants. Although the United States is originally an immigrant country and is known as a "melting pot", there have always been "local protectionists" who come first and then arrive, excluding later immigrants. Most Spanish immigrants come from Mexico. Hispanic immigrants have a low level of education and most of them speak Spanish. They go to the United States to engage in low-paid manual labor and live in downtown areas where white Americans don't want to live. It is difficult for new Hispanic immigrants to integrate into the mainstream American society, let alone enter the upper class of American society.