The Injustice Never Leaves You

Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

Monica Muñoz Martinez

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$37.00 • £29.95 • €33.50

ISBN 9780674976436

Publication Date: 09/03/2018

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400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

25 photos, 1 map

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Monica Muñoz Martinez is Associate Professor of History at The University of Texas at Austin. She is cofounder of the nonprofit organization Refusing to Forget, which calls for a public reckoning with racial violence in Texas. In addition to winning six book prizes, The Injustice Never Leaves You in 2019 was named a Five Books Best Book on White Supremacy and Texas Observer Best Texas Book of the Decade.

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Awards & Accolades

2019 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians

Finalist, 2019 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians

2019 María Elena Martínez Prize for Outstanding Book in Mexican History, The Conference on Latin American History

2019 TCU Texas Book Award, Friends of the Texas Christian University Library and TCU Press

2019 NACCS–Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (Tejas Foco)

2019 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association

2019 Robert G. Athearn Award, Western History Association

A Dallas Observer “Best Books by Texas Authors You Should Check Out Now That You Have Time to Read” Selection, 2020

A Five Books Best Book on White Supremacy, 2019

A Texas Observer Best Texas Book of the Decade, 2019

A Colorlines “Race-Focused Books We’re Reading This Fall” Selection, 2018

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