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“The Shrine of Chino Mine: Extraction Rhetoric and Public Memory in Southern New Mexico”

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Kelli Lycke Martin is a graduate teaching instructor and PhD candidate at the University of Arizona. She wrote this article during the last year of her master’s program in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of New Mexico. Her research interests include cultural memory sites and historical discourse rhetorics of labor, resistance & protest.

Contents

Introduction

The Shrine

The Injury of Extraction

Shrines and Memorials

Memory of Santa Rita

The Future of Santa Rita

Works Cited

Works Cited

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Jones, Paul M. “Memories of Santa Rita: Chino’s Medical Plan‒and some other topics.” Silver City Daily Press, 10 June 1985, p.8.

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Steele, Christine. “Vandals Strike Santa Rita Shrine.” Silver City Daily Press, 3 Oct. 2018, http://www.scdailypress.com/site/2018/10/03/vandals-strike-santa-rita-shrine/.

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Posted by xcheditor on May 17, 2021 in article, Issue 15.1

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