A look at the Latino experience in America
A look at the Latino experience in America
- May 6, 2016
- Leo Chavez, anthropology and Chicano/Latino studies professor, on the Latino experience in the U.S., courtesy of The Boston Globe, May 6, 2016
All that time, nativist suspicion has simmered and overheated, as is clear from the
provocatively titled The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the
Nation .… It’s by Leo R. Chavez, an anthropology professor at the University of California,
Irvine, and it’s both scholarly and subversive. In fact, Chavez boldly co-opts the
“threat” narrative of opponents to south-of-the-border immigration and then frames
it within “the grand tradition of alarmist discourse.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2016/05/05/look-latino-experience-america/8ZTL73YaLVDj9XfbcJACZM/story.html.
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