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From the Bookshelves: The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

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Fac_chavez2 51ga5u66hel__sl160_aa115_ In his new book “The Latino Threat:  Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation” (Stanford University Press) UC Irvine anthropology professor Leo Chavez says ” It is time to put the Latino Threat Narrative to rest. It is counterproductive and divisive. . . . It is an inaccurate depiction of the everyday lives of Latino immigrants and Latinos in general.”  The new book examines issues of anti-Latino discourse, struggles over the meaning of citizenship, and role of media spectacles in society in relation to the politics of reproduction, organ transplants, the Minuteman Project, and immigrant marches and protests.

Chavez’s other His books include Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992, 1997 2nd edition), which provides an ethnographic account of Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants in San Diego County, California. Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation (University of California Press 2001) examines representations of immigrants in the media and popular discourse in the United States through the lens of magazine covers and their related articles.

For a news story about the book, click here.

KJ