Rubén Martínez

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Rubén MartínezThis site combines the work by Rubén Martínez, his books and articles, his music, documentaries and performances, and his blog. You can contact Rubén, see his appearance in the media via his bio+ page.

Rubén’s new book, Desert America is now available. You can read excerpts online (see Desert America for more info).

NEW! Sneak Preview of KCET-TV’s Broadcast of “The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón” (see “Variedades” for more info).

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Read a serialized chapter from my new book DESERT AMERICA at KCET.org‘s Artbound website. “House of the Moon” is set in Joshua Tree and tells the origins of the thriving art colony there. DESERT AMERICA is the result of over ten years of living and traveling through the Southwest and borderlands — a period during which both great wealth and ruinous poverty transformed the most iconic of American landscapes.

Books Books

DESERT AMERICA Boom and Bust in the New Old West

The New Americans Seven Families Journey to Another Country

Crossing Over A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

The Other Side Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond

Op-Eds Op-Eds

02/13 New York Times: “Now the Desert is Just a Desert”

11/12 New York Times “Room for Debate”

12/11 Occupy’s Deep L.A. Roots

05/11 Mexico’s drug war: Crossing borders

04/11 The Mother Tongues: Learning Spanish and English Unites Children

03/11 Conjuring the Desert

09/10 Bringing ‘América Tropical’ Back to Life

10/08 In a World of Color, Change

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Essays Essays

Echoes of Magón

Blood and Sand: Poet Javier Sicilia Makes the Victims Visible

Assembly Required: Noah Purifoy’s Desert Cure

Angry Young Man

Public Intellectualism and LMU’s Mission

The Worlds that Collide in Me

Collaborations with photographer Joseph Rodriguez

Photography Books Photography Books

Flesh Life Sex in Mexico City

East Side Stories Gang Life in East LA

Multimedia Multimedia

The New Americans

Spirit and Flesh

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