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

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.

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?

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