Leo R. Chavez
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Where are we in America?
How did we get here?
And that's why I think my book tries to show it.
It just didn't happen overnight.
I was looking at these things from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and this progression of this rhetoric.
And it goes up and down.
Some people accept it.
Some people don't.
But more recently, it's been up.
I think hopefully it'll come down.
Yeah, let me say first of all that the reason I chose to look at rhetoric, even though I present a lot of information, you know, like immigrants really don't cause more crime, you know, immigrants really do learn English, immigrants aren't invading, etc., etc., is to show that it's not empirical evidence that's pushing the Latino threat narrative.
It's rhetoric.
It's a set of decisions that are put out there that people want to believe.
So it's not evidence-based.
The Latino threat narrative is not based on evidence, it's based upon rhetoric, which is a key thing.
So I felt I had to put the evidence just so people realized how powerful the rhetoric was.
And as an anthropologist, I came to this idea because, in a sense, what anthropology tries to understand is culture and how we think about things, how we feel, how we have emotions, and where those emotions come from.
And in a sense, a narrative is a way of encapsulating emotions and encapsulating understandings that people have that could be used to motivate them to take particular actions.
And so that's what the Latino threat narrative is.
It's really a motivator for action by people who want to pursue that kind of a line of thought to blame Latinos and immigrants for whatever bad thing in their life they feel is happening.
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