David James Gonzalez
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540 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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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.
And so this leading to my question, you know, that this book came out in 2008.
You talked somewhat about what kind of started motivating and getting your thinking along this lines.
It's in its third edition, which is pretty rare for an academic book.
Um, so it's had quite a bit of, uh, legs, if you will, and, and necessitated multiple releases.
And so you tell us a bit about what prompted you to, uh, update it and revive, cause this is not just a, a, you know, a slap on a new, uh, uh, prologue and, and maybe tweak, uh, an introduction or, or, or a conclusion.
You, you update several parts of this book.
We talk about what prompted that.
No, I'm glad you did.
As I shared with you before we started recording, I've always felt over the years that I've been podcasting just of how applicable and prescient your book has been ever since I came across it.
I think about that timeline of 2008 when it first comes out to now.
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