The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition

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.

• Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State
• The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (California Series in Public Anthropology Book 32)
• Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials (Latina/o Sociology Book 8)
• Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (Latina/o Sociology Book 6)
• Latino Politics (US Minority Politics)
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
• U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century: Making Americans, Remaking America (Dilemmas in American Politics)
• Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction (Critical America Book 20)
• White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America)
• Nat Turner