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Nuclear Nuevo Mexico foregrounds the people most impacted by the development of the nuclear industry in New Mexico--the local communities whose lives and livelihoods were forever changed by the Manhattan Project and the nuclear era it initiated. Urgent and compelling, this study challenges readers to confront the racialized borders of our nuclear past, present, and future. --Anita Huizar-Hernandez, author of Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West Gomez offers a much-needed history based on the voices of the people whose lives and lands were stolen in the name of nuclear research. You have heard about Oppenheimer and Fermi and other scientists, but what about the farmers and the laborers whose worlds were changed by the lab? What about their descendants and the ongoing illnesses and contamination of the land? Learn about it in this book written from the heart of the community. --Priscilla Solis Ybarra, author of Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment

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Myrriah Gómez is a Nuevomexicana from the Pojoaque Valley. She is an assistant professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico.

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