The Spanish language in the United States : rootedness, racialization, and resistance /

"This book addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the US, its racialization--and Spanish-speakers resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their oppression meekly. It traces the...

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Other Authors: Cobas, JoseÌ? A. (Editor), Urciuoli, Bonnie, 1949- (Editor), Feagin, Joe R. (Editor), Delgado, Daniel J. (Daniel Justino) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Series:New critical viewpoints on society series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language, race, and power. Introduction: Language, racialization, and power / Bonnie Urciuoli, JoseÌ? A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin and Daniel J. Delgado
  • Language oppression and resistance : the case of middle-class Latinos in the United States / JoseÌ? A. Cobas and Joe R. Feagin
  • Rootedness. The early political history of Spanish in the United States / Rosina Lozano
  • The demography of the Latino Spanish speakers in the United States / Rogelio SaÌ?enz and Daniel Mamani
  • Racialization. What anti-Spanish prejudice tells us about whiteness / Bonnie Urciuoli
  • The language-elsewhere : a friendlier linguistic terrorism / Mike Mena
  • "You are not allowed to speak Spanish! This is an American hospital!" : Puerto Rican experiences with domestic discrimination / Alessandra Rosa, Elizabeth Aranda, and Hilary Dotson
  • Blanqueamiento dreams, trigueño myths, refusal of Blackness / Michelle Ramos Pellicia and Sharon Elise
  • Resistance. The enchantment of language resistance in Puerto Rico / Kevin Alejandrez and Ana S.Q. Liberato
  • Subtracting Spanish and forcing English : my lived experience in Texas public schools / JoseÌ? Angel GutieÌ?rrez.