Prof Sources LA Sojourn for Book About Latino Prejudice
In his new book Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: the Cultural Production of Social Anxiety, UC Merced professor Ignacio López-Calvo has a simple explanation for the historically negative English language representation of California illegal immigrants. Every society needs its scapegoats, especially in times of crisis.
López-Calvo tells hometown newspaper the Sun-Star that in his native Spain, it is immigrants from North Africa and South America who are blamed for “taking our jobs.” When he first came to the U.S.
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