July 04, 2013
Features, Insight New Mexico, Politics / Current Events, Art / Culture
V.B. Price talks with scholar and author David Correia about his new book Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico. The book explores the concept of violence as an inherent part of the enactment of property rights and provides a new lens for looking into the origins of land grant struggles in New Mexico that takes into account the role and effect on Native Americans.
V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.
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