Myrriah Gómez and Salsa Music in Albuquerque

Date: Thursday, May 16

Time: 5 – 8:30 p.m. MST

Where: Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM

Myrriah Gómez, author of Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos  will speak at the Albuquerque Museum’s Third Thursday event. 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. The “Nuclear Communities of the Southwest” event also features salsa music in the Cuban style from Son Como Son. The event is free with the opportunity to create your own art related to exhibitions or do yoga in the galleries.

About the book:

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.

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