Evidence

The story of Corregidora has many themes, one of them being the removal and permanence of evidence. Ursa's great grandmother, grandmother, and mother continuously expressed to her the need to continue on generations, as they were to be her forms of evidence. Ursa, is now barren and does not have this traditional evidence to give. However, she does harbor the spirit of the matriarchs before her and the evidence of their abuse "...even though they'd burned everything to play like it didn't ever happen" (pg. 9).

In the above clip from the movie "Crash" (2004), Thandie Newton's character, the wife of an African-American television director, is essentially molested by a white police officer who has pulled them over.  To spite she and her husband her for objecting to his treatment, the police officer fondles and touches her extremely inappropriately on her legs, thighs, breasts, butt, and vagina.

The pain on her husband's face is her evidence. The shameful feelings that he cannot protect himself nor her is evidence. The fear in her eyes as his hands travel up her dress is evidence. This black woman's body, is now a site of evidence. And even though the officer and his partner will drive away, "only issuing a warning", they are metaphorically "burning everything to play like it didn't ever happen".