Spanish Language in the United States

<p><em>The Spanish Language in the United States</em> addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, 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 rootedness of Spanish since the 1500s, when the Spanish empire began the settlement of the new land, till today, when 39 million U.S. Latinos speak Spanish at home. Authors show how whites categorize Spanish speaking in ways that denigrate the non-standard language habits of Spanish speakers—including in schools—highlighting ways of overcoming racism.</p> <p>Section One: Language, Race, and Power</p><p>Introduction: Language, Racialization, and Power.</p><p>Chapter 1: The Case of Middle-class Latinos in the United States</p><p>Section Two: Rootedness </p><p>Chapter 2: The Early Political History of Spanish in the United States</p><p>Chapter 3: The Demography and Socioeconomic Standing of Spanish-Language Latinos</p><p>Section Three: Racialization</p><p>Chapter 4: What Anti-Spanish Prejudice Tells Us about Whiteness</p><p>Chapter 5: A Language-elsewhere: A Friendlier Linguistic Terrorism</p><p>Chapter 6: "You Are Not Allowed to Speak Spanish! This Is an American Hospital!": Puerto Ricans’ Experiences with Linguistic Discrimination and Otherness in Central Florida</p><p>Chapter 7: Black Spanish, White Leanings, Trigueño Mythologies in Puerto Rico</p><p>Section Four: Resistance</p><p>Chapter 8: The Enchantment of Language Resistance in Puerto Rico</p><p>Chapter 9: Subtracting Spanish and Forcing English: My Lived Experience in Texas Public Schools</p>