David James Gonzalez

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540 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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New Books in Latin American Studies · Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

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.

And so my experience in Southern California was really highlighted, I think, when I went to college and I started to read books like yours that started to shed light on something I felt that I've saw.

You know, I grew up a bit later than you, 80s and 90s, or my school age years, elementary school through high school.

Prop 187, which I'm sure we'll talk some more about, you know, came about when I just entered high school.

And, you know, the aspect of this Latino threat I'm bringing up here, when I read your book, I had never...

I think heard that phrase before, but when I read it, you know, perhaps a decade or so out of high school, I had a very different, you know, trajectory educationally and professionally.

So I came upon your book probably around, I think 2011, 2012, a little bit after it was published.

I had done some work as an undergrad before that and, and gotten started become fascinated in the politics of immigration and

But when I read your book in that title, it just rang so true that this is what I had grown up amidst, particularly in the media, that the place that I lived at, I lived in, which I split my life between Ventura County and San Diego.

The latter half of my life was in San Diego, particularly Chula Vista, so very close to the border.

Mm-hmm.

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