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The Latino threat : how alarmist rhetoric misrepresents immigrants, citizens, and the nation : How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Third Edition / Leo R. Chavez.
De Gruyter Stanford University Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
De Gruyter Stanford University Press Complete eBook-Package 2025- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Press coverage--United States.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Press coverage--United States.
- Mexican Americans.
- Immigrants--Civil rights--United States.
- Immigrants.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Prejudices in the press--United States.
- Prejudices in the press.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both U.S.-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges the basic tenants of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical investigation into the fears and prejudices that are used to malign an entire population. In this updated and expanded third edition of his groundbreaking book, Chavez incorporates Donald Trump's emergence in American political life, with particular focus on the U.S.-Mexico border as a site of political theater, and the further sharpening of anti-Latino and anti-immigration rhetoric in public discourse. He also includes new discussions of "anchor babies," Dreamers and DACA, Latina reproduction and white replacement theory, and the emotional and psychological effects of negative political rhetoric on those whom it targets. Through trenchant analysis, this book reexamines urgent questions about what it means to be American"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Constructing and challenging myths. The Latino threat narrative
- How the rhetoric of resentment targets Latinos
- Latina sexuality, reproduction, and fertility as threats to the nation
- Fear of white replacement and Latina reproduction reconsidered
- Media spectacles. Mainstreaming the Latino threat narrative
- Spectacles of surveillance on the U.S.-Mexico border
- Organ transplants and the privileges of citizenship
- "Dreamers," DACA, and "anchor babies"
- The Latino threat narrative's emotional toll. Latino emotional responses to political rhetoric as resentimiento
- The Latino threat narrative and stress, health, and well-being.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781503642546
- 1503642542
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