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

I mean, this is very old, right.

Native is xenophobic rhetoric in American history, but, but,

It had now been pushed, you know, thanks to the history of eugenics and Nazism, this type of talk right in the post-war era was not really acceptable.

Right.

And so while it still existed and was always an undercurrent of our politics and our rhetoric, it was off in the fringes.

And it's become mainstream.

Like, from there, from 2008, right, to now, this is almost, I mean, for many people, we could have, I don't know, is it a third of the country?

I don't know how big MAGA is or whatever.

And how many of these people are really, I think Trump's biggest, right, effective message is this, right?

Is the Latino threat?

Is the immigrant threat?

I think that's how he pulls his coalition and holds them together in many ways.

So whatever the percentage is, they think this is truth.

And now we're on the side, seemingly, right?

I'm teaching my Latino history, my immigration history classes to some students that come from rather conservative backgrounds.

And when I share these facts with them, right, it is almost like...

I'm now in the fringe.

I don't know.

So can I just get some of your thoughts on that?

You've been kind of speaking to it, but some of our thoughts of just, wow, we are truly in this era where what you detailed has really become mainstream and academics are perceived now in the age of misinformation in the post-truth era as the ones that are just making this stuff up and saying, no, this isn't real.

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