David James Gonzalez

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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

Indeed, I hope so, too.

I want to talk about this aspect of science, of evidence, and how you've approached this topic through your particular field as an anthropologist.

How have you examined this extreme form of anti-immigrant, anti-Latino rhetoric?

Can you give us an example or two?

No, this is great.

And I agree.

And, you know, also it's, I think, this rhetoric is, you know, also seemingly circulated in a vacuum, right?

Wherein Americans have, in my estimation, and this is my estimation through the students that I've taught, you know, over the last 12 years or so, and the co-workers I've had in other careers and other fields over the last,

25 years or 27 years uh uh whatever it may be um of adulthood um wherein they don't realize that these these problems right like declining birth rates right this is this is a a global thing across the so-called global north right um

all of the Northern European countries are experiencing something similar, right?

We see global migration throughout the world coming from the global South to the global North, right?

For a lot of the reasons, the inequality that you discussed, right?

And so these anti-immigrant movements and nativist movements that we see here are represented throughout Europe also.

In the United States, they've come to take on, again, its own

I think uniqueness in that particularly our fascination with the border, again, the southern border, Latinos throughout the 20th century have been essentially become, or at least the very least throughout the mid to late 20th century and early 21st century, become the favored boogeymen.

to continuously point to, although others circulate in, certainly.

But I want to go to this idea that you point out that these ideas that form the Latino thread aren't just random.

It's a cohesive set of beliefs.

And then you've made that connection to where

It forms into a narrative that is supposed to motivate people to action.

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