Latino Threat Narrative Analysis

In Chavez’s article Latino Threat Narrative, he challenges the ideological assumptions of the Latino Threat Narrative. Chavez discusses how the Latino Threat is still a current idea in the modern world. He gives the example of one article where the writer states that Latinos that have immigrated to the United States have not integrated into society and instead have created their own enclaves. This author also talks about how dangerous Latino immigrants are and how a lot of them are criminals. The immigration restriction of the past created the illegal alien as a “new legal and political subject, whose inclusion within the nation was simultaneously a social reality and a legal impossibility – a subject barred from citizenship and without rights.” (Chavez 24) All Mexican immigrants were soon put into this illegal alien identity. The overall view of Latinos, especially Mexican immigrants is that they are individuals who will not become a part of U.S. society. The Latino Threat Narrative discourse “are represented as the other and as a threat and danger to the nation through such simple binaries of citizen/foreigner, real Americans/Mexicans or real Americans/Hispanics, natives/enemies, us/them and illegitimate/illegal.” (Chavez 41) Chavez attempts to challenge
The show is an about a young Latino woman who becomes pregnant when she is a virgin by an artificial insemination accident. This show is destroying Latino stereotypes for several reasons. Jane is a strong and independent woman working in a hotel. She is a part of American society without assimilating herald to be American. The show used her Latino identity to show different aspects of the culture to give the viewing audience a better understanding of the culture. The show overall refutes the Latino stereotypes of Latina women only work as maids, Latinos are uneducated and poor, and Latinos do not speak English