"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...

Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in "Desert America," a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of "Crossing Over," evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin.

"A complex yet affirming memoir about growing up in northern New Mexico, in a family doubly removed from the community; as Hispanic Protestants, they were a minority among the region's politically dominant Anglo Protestants and a minority within the overwhelmingly Catholic Hispanic populace. Includes photographs by Miguel Gandert"--Provided by publisher.