An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States

An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
ISBN-10
0520969588
ISBN-13
9780520969582
Category
History
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
2018-04-24
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Rosina Lozano

Description

An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.

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