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Author Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph), author.

Title The Latino threat : constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation / Leo R. Chavez.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource (xi, 297 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1. Constructing and challenging myths. The Latino threat narrative -- Cultural contradictions of citizenship and belonging -- Latina sexuality, reproduction, and fertility as threats to the nation -- Latina fertility and reproduction reconsidered -- Part 2. Media spectacles and the production of neoliberal citizen-subjects. Organ transplants and the privileges of citizenship -- The Minuteman Project's spectacle of surveillance on the Arizona-Mexico border -- The immigrant marches of 2006 and the struggle for inclusion -- DREAMers and anchor babies.
Summary News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the many fictions about the "Latino threat." With new discussion about anchor babies, the DREAM Act, and recent anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona and other states, this expanded second edition critically investigates the stories about recent immigrants to show how prejudices are used to malign an entire population--and to define what it means to be American.
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Subject Hispanic Americans -- Press coverage -- United States.
Hispanic Americans -- Press coverage.
United States.
Mexican Americans -- Press coverage -- United States.
Mexican Americans.
Press coverage.
Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.
Immigrants -- Civil rights.
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.
Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph). Latino threat. Second edition. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013] 9780804783514 (DLC) 2012040902 (OCoLC)812614597
ISBN 9780804786188 (electronic book)
0804786186 (electronic book)
0804783519 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804783514 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804783527 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780804783521 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780804783514 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804783521 (paperback ; alkaline paper)