Description: 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 MÉxico focuses on recovering the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of this history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah GÓmez tells a new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo MÉxico but instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico. GÓmez examines the experiences of Nuevomexicanas/os who have been impacted by the nuclear industrial complex, both the weapons industry and the commercial industry. GÓmez argues that Los Alamos was created as a racist project that targeted poor and working-class Nuevomexicana/o farming families, along with their Pueblo neighbors, to create a nuclear empire. The resulting imperialism has left a legacy of disease and distress throughout New Mexico that continues today.
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EAN: 9780816537105
UPC: 9780816537105
ISBN: 9780816537105
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Book Title: Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Nuclear Nuevo México : Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / 21st Century
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Myrriah Gómez
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
