David James Gonzalez
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Right.
Hello, and welcome back to New Books in Latino Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network.
I'm David James Gonzalez, your host for today, and I'm pleased to be speaking with Leo R. Chavez, author of the award-winning book, The Latino Threat, How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, in its third edition, released earlier this year by Stanford University Press, and that is in 2025.
Leo R. Chavez is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
He is the author of several books, including Covering Immigration, Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation, which was published by UC Press in 2001, and Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship, published by Stanford University Press in 2017.
Dr. Chavez is the recipient of several awards, including the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award for The Latino Threat, which he received in 2009, and another from the Society of the Anthropology of North America's Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America.
He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.
Hello, Leo, and welcome to the New Books Network and New Books and Latino Studies.
I'm hoping you can begin today by just introducing yourself a bit more to our audience.
Tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, perhaps personally and professionally.
No, we will.
Definitely.
I'm fascinated by some of your background in that my dad's family is from northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
And particularly in the Mexico part, Rio Arriba area, we're there for several generations.
So we should compare notes.
Maybe there's some type of relation somewhere along there.
Yeah.
There you go.
I grew up in Southern California also.
It was my dad's parents that moved to Los Angeles, actually, really right around World War II.
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