Leo Chavez: 2 books

Book cover of The Latino Threat

The Latino Threat

Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition

by Leo Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

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...
Book cover of Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship
by Leo R. Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of citizenship for children of immigrants was seemingly settled by the Fourteenth Amendment, vitriolic...
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