Nuclear Nuevo Mxico: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos (Gmez Myrriah)(Paperback)

In the 1940s military and scientific personnel chose the Pajarito Plateau to site Project Y of the secret Manhattan Project, where scientists developed the atomic bomb. Nuevomexicanas/os and Tewa people were forcibly dispossessed from their ranches and sacred land in north-central New Mexico with inequitable or no compensation. Contrary to previous works that suppress Nuevomexicana/o presence throughout U.S. nuclear history, Nuclear Nuevo Mxico focuses on recovering the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of this history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah Gmez tells a new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo Mxico but instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico. Gmez examines the
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