If we connect more truthfully with the past, we can chart a new course moving forward.

A Look Into the Exploration of Disavowed Border Histories

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Monica Munoz Martinez Spotlight

Personal testimonies offer important reminders that racial violence does not only impact the targets of that violence, it expands to encompass entire societies.

Epigmenia Treviño Bazán (center left), whose husband Jesus Bazán was murdered, stands on the porch of her home with surviving family members. The baby in front is Eloisa Longoria, whose father Antonio was also killed at the hands of the state. Despite violence and intimidation, the women decided not to leave their ranch, ultimately passing it on to their children. Courtesy of Christine Molis and Norma L. Rodriguez. Photo provided by the Bullock Texas State History Museum

Jesus Bazan Home and Family

Antonio Longoria and Antonia Longoria. Photo courtesy of Norma Longoria Rodriguez

Antonio Longoria and Antonia Longoria

Monica Muñoz Martinez is an award-winning author, teacher, and public historian, and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (MMUF). Photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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In an interview from 2018, associate professor and MMUF alumna Monica Muñoz Martinez shares insights from her book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

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Higher Learning

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From the Mellon Archive: Monica Muñoz Martinez Uncovers America’s History at the Border 

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 

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