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Watch Martinez discuss El Paso on MSNBC’s The Beat.Read a Mother Jones interview with Martinez in the wake of the El Paso attack.On WNYC’s The Takeaway, listen to Monica Muñoz Martinez respond to the August 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, TX, in the context of America’s dark-and largely unknown-history of anti-Mexican violence.Read a Time report, informed by discussion with Martinez, on the quest by Porvenir victims’ descendants’ to increase awareness of the massacre.Listen to Martinez discuss Texas’s history of racial violence on the podcast Writing Westward, from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.Read a Texas Monthly cover story on “the battle to rewrite Texas history” that highlights Martinez’s research into state-sponsored racial violence.As a new FBI report shows that the rate of hate crimes against Latinos in the United States is at its highest in nearly a decade, listen to Martinez discuss the “forgotten” history of anti-Latino violence in the United States on WBUR (Boston, MA)’s Here & Now.Read a feature on Porvenir, Texas at Mitú.Read a KCET (Los Angeles, CA) feature on the documentary Porvenir, Texas and Martinez’s research.Watch the trailer for the 55-minute documentary film, Porvenir, Texas (PBS Voces, September 2019).

Read a Vox report, informed by discussion with Martinez, on how white nationalism became a “centerpiece” of the Trump administration.

Visit the website for Refusing to Forget, a nonprofit organization cofounded by Monica Muñoz Martinez that calls for a public reckoning with racial violence in Texas.

The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant at the time, and how a determined community ensured that the victims were not forgotten. Yet its memorialization provided victims with an important means of redress, undermining official narratives that sought to whitewash these atrocities. Martinez reconstructs this history from institutional and private archives and oral histories, to show how the horror of anti-Mexican violence lingered within communities for generations, compounding injustice by inflicting further pain and loss. They confronted assailants in court, worked with Mexican diplomats to investigate the crimes, pressured local police to arrest the perpetrators, spoke to journalists, and petitioned politicians for change. Survivors suffered segregation and fierce intimidation, and yet fought back. Families scoured the brush to retrieve the bodies of loved ones. Operating in remote rural areas enabled the perpetrators to do their worst: hanging, shooting, burning, and beating victims to death without scrutiny. Monica Muñoz Martinez turns to the keepers of this history to tell this riveting and disturbing untold story.

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The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims. If you enjoy historical fiction OR science fiction, you'll enjoy being transported to 1357 France and the well researched writings of Crichton in Timeline.On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, listen to Monica Muñoz Martinez provide historical context for the Trump administration’s violent and racially-charged policies for asylum-seekers crossing America’s southern border:Ī moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in the Texas–Mexico borderlands.īetween 19, vigilantes and law enforcement-including the renowned Texas Rangers-killed Mexican residents with impunity.

The f emale gymnast, Kate, is particularly pleasing as she deftly eludes capture by dancing along the rafters of a church.

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In contrast to the hollywood movie produced from this novel, you'll find detailed characters, a well thought out plot and captivating action scenes that transport the reader directly into the 14th century. He intelligently describes a semi-operational time travel device in Timeline, as several archeological students are transported and subsequently trapped in France during a coming seige. I always enjoy Crichton's broad knowledge-base in his detailed sequences of the scientific and technological circumstances that appear in most of his popular fiction writings.

His pace of writing is flawless as he transitions between the science of time travel and 14th century France. Michael Crichton's Timeline is a superb techno-thriller incorporating Medieval History within the Sci-fi genre. Great Medieval Fiction From Writer of Jurassic Park