Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Latina/Latino Studies
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Recent Publications
Martinez, A. Y. (2026). Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory. (2 ed.) (CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric). National Council of Teachers of English.
Martinez, A. Y., & Smith, R. O. (2025). Foreword: Be Afraid: The radical prophetic witness of Critical Race Theory. Communication and Democracy, 59(2), 269-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/27671127.2025.2548592
Martinez, A. Y., & Smith, R. O. (2025). The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement. NYU Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.28697835
Smith, R. O., & Martinez, A. Y. (2025). Junk Theories: Conservative Christian Media and the Contemporary Political Attack on Critical Race Theory. In S. E. Turner, & S. D. Nilsen (Eds.), Critical Race Theory and the American Media (pp. 77-94). (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003595069-7
Martinez, A. Y. (2024). Alejandra Chooses Life: Revising the Resignation Letter toward Counterstory as Epistle. In C. M. Lavecchia, A. D. Carr, L. R. Micciche, H. J. Rule, & J. E. O. Stone (Eds.), Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making (pp. 41-47). Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781646425501-007