Leo R. Chavez
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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So I felt that it was time to...
To do the third edition, to try and really try and figure out how I felt, my book and my ideas helped me frame and understand the contemporary ethos that's happening in politics.
And that's why I wrote it.
I felt an urgency to do it.
It's like one of those things as academics where you feel like, I really got to do this.
No, that's true.
I spent some time in the third edition talking about how the Latino threat became mainstream, and particularly in the Trump years.
Because what we see is just, I mean, some of the media, the right-wing media, so readily puts out ideas that in the past were considered fringe, as you put it, and I put it.
like white replacement theory, that whites are somehow being targeted and that the policies of the Democrats are to get more non-white voters in.
The idea that we have to stop women of color from having babies because they're having too many babies and whites aren't having enough babies.
Well, whites could have babies.
And the new...
The willingness to use terms that are so much a part of fascist and Nazi history, like remigration.
I mean, that's a huge concept from the, I guess, the white nationalist movement in Europe.
And the willingness to just borrow those phrases and use them as if somehow they don't matter.
Someone asked me, well, isn't remigration just return migration?
I said, no.
Return migration is a concept we use in academia to understand migration.
The other one is based on the ideology of whiteness and racism.
I mean, so the two have to be understood, you know, in terms of their actual differences.
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