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Monica Muñoz Martinez is an award-winning author, educator, and public historian known for her expertise in racial history and violence. She specializes in areas such as the policing of the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, public humanities, digital humanities, and restorative justice. Martinez is the author of "The Injustice Leaves Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas," which provides a moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Additionally, she is working on a digital research project titled Mapping Violence, which recovers histories of racial violence in Texas from 1900 to 1930. As a founding member of the non-profit organization Refusing Forget, Martinez advocates for public commemorations of anti-Mexican violence in Texas and played a crucial role in developing an award-winning exhibit at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in 2016. She has also helped secure historical markers along the US-Mexico border to acknowledge the state's past responsibilities during a time of racial terror.
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