Leo R. Chavez
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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You know, in my lifetime, I've seen this big shift, and I would have to say, in contrary to the rhetoric, most of that shift has been very positive.
It's been a great set of contributions to American life, culture, society, and economy over the last 40 years.
And so that sort of prompted me to think, well, why are we seeing so much negative rhetoric?
My own personal experience doesn't sort of really suggest that those are all true, in quotes, claims.
And so I was kind of urged in my own mind to think, well, how can I investigate this?
And so basically all my books sort of grew out of the same set of ideas.
You know, one book, as you know, as a scholar, leads to the next book, to the next book, to the next book.
as one chapter in one book said, I could expand that and think about that even more.
And so I'd say my whole career looking at immigration, which began about 1980, has really followed that same trajectory of really trying to understand what's going on and why there's this misrepresentation of immigrants in society.
So that's sort of my career in short.
If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Anybody from that area is pretty much related.
They've been a couple of generations.
That's what we're all called, privos.
That was my thoughts exactly.
But I'm sure you're not being biased in this interview just because we thought we were related.
well yeah i basically you know the second edition came out in 2012 because stanford said hey your book i said my book just came out what do you want a second edition they go because things have changed already dramatically i mean it's just what you wrote about in 2008 have been has become uh incredibly even more pervasive and and of course now it's been 13 years or something and um
And a lot of things took place in that time period that I didn't suspect would happen.
And I thought basically after writing The Latino Threat, you know, sort of the way we think as academics, we find a problem, we discuss the problems, we critique the problems, and put it out there, and people will say, that problem's over, we now understand what's going on.
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