The Latino threat : how alarmist rhetoric misrepresents immigrants, citizens, and the nation /
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 crit...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2025].
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of 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.