Nuclear Nuevo México : colonialism and the effects of the nuclear industrial complex on Nuevomexicanos /

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Author / Creator:	Gómez, Myrriah, author.
Imprint:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Nuclear industry -- Social aspects -- New Mexico. Nuclear industry -- Environmental aspects -- New Mexico.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12770307

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ISBN:	9780816537105 0816537100 9780816547616 0816547610 9780816547623
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index.
Summary:	"Nuclear Nuevo México: Identity, Ethnicity, and Resistance in Atomic Third Spaces is the study of the effects of the American nuclear program on Native American and Mexican-American communities in New Mexico. As the United States emerged as a nuclear leader following World War II, Los Alamos, New Mexico, became home to Site Y of the Manhattan Project-home of the atomic bomb. In the process of creating this nuclear technology, human and non-human life was destroyed. The experiences of Native American and Mexican-American communities have been neglected in the history of American nuclear technology. In this study Gómez seeks to show the local history of these two rural communities in New Mexico and how they were touched by the national discourse on the nuclear industrial complex from the spectrum of environmental racism and American exceptionalism. Gómez shows how some of these groups have resisted the mistreatment of their land and communities, while others have become complacent and have acquiesced to American nuclear development. The author incorporates the stories of Native American and Mexican American communities into the history of American nuclear technological development"--
Other form:	Online version: Gómez, Myrriah, 1985- Nuclear nuevo México Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022 9780816547623

Table of Contents:

Preface
Agradecimientos
Introduction
1. Nuclear Colonialism: The Manhattan Project and Eminent Domain on the Pajarito Plateau
2. Nuclear Alienation: Nuevomexicano Laborers and the Explosives Deaths of the 1950s
3. Erasing Querencia from Los Alamos: Racist and Sexualized Portrayals of New Mexican Women and Place in the Television Series Manhattan
4. Environmental Racism in the Tularosa Basin: The Trinity Downwinders and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
5. "No Nuclear Waste Aqui": The Nuclear Corridor and Nuclear Waste in Southeastern New Mexico
Conclusion: Nuclear Coloniality: The Legacy of the Manhattan Project
Notes
References
Index

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