The Spanish language in the United States : rootedness, racialization, and resistance / edited by José A. Cobas, Bonnie Urciuoli, Joe R. Feagin, and Daniel J. Delgado.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cobas, José A., editor.

Urciuoli, Bonnie, 1949- editor.

Feagin, Joe R., editor.

Delgado, Daniel J. (Daniel Justino), editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

New critical viewpoints on society.

New critical viewpoints on society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--United States.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Social aspects--United States.

Sociolinguistics--United States.

Sociolinguistics.

Hispanic Americans.

Language and languages.

Spanish language--Social aspects.

United States.

Hispanic Americans--Languages.

Racism in language.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Još A. Cobas is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Arizona State University. Among his publications are (with Jorge Duany and Joe R. Feagin) How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony Its Consequences (2009), (with Joe R. Feagin) Latinos Facing Racism: Discrimination, Resistance, and Endurance (2014), and (with Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado, and Maria Chv̀ez), Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance (Routledge, 2019). Bonnie Urciuoli is professor emerita of anthropology at Hamilton College where she taught linguistic and semioticanthropology. She has published on race/class ideologies of Spanish-English bilingualism in New York City, on the discursive production and marketing of 'skills' in the U.S., and on the construction and marketing of studenthood and diversity in U.S. higher education. Books include Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class (1996),Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life (forthcoming), and an edited volume The Experience of Neoliberal Education (2018). Joe Feagin is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Texas A & M University. He specializes in systemic racism studies. Among his books are Latinos Facing Racism (2014, with J. Cobas); Racist America (4th ed., Routledge 2019, with K. Ducey); Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education (Routledge, 2020, with E. Chun); The White Racial Frame (3rd ed., Routledge 2020); and Revealing Systemic British Racism (Routledge, 2021, with K. Ducey). He is the recipient of the American Association for Affirmative Action's Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Sociological Association's W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, and Public Understanding of Sociology Award. He was 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association. Daniel J. Delgado is Associate Professor of Sociology or at Texas A&M-University at San Antonio. His research is focused on three areas, Latino/a student experiences in higher education, Middleclass Latinx experiences with processes of racialization, and understanding how race and space intersect in the Southwest. He has published in several edited volumes and journals and is co-editor (with Još A. Cobas and Joe R. Feagin) of Latino Peoples in the New America: Racialization and Resistance (Routledge, 20190. He lives in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

Contents:

Language, race, and power. Introduction: Language, racialization, and power / Bonnie Urciuoli, José A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin and Daniel J. Delgado

The case of middle-class Latinos in the United States / José A. Cobas and Joe R. Feagin, "Language oppression and resistance"

Rootedness. The early political history of Spanish in the United States / Rosina Lozano

The demography and socioeconomic standing of Spanish-language Latinos / Rogelio Sáenz and Daniel Mamani

Racialization. What anti-Spanish prejudice tells us about whiteness / Bonnie Urciuoli

A language-elsewhere : a friendlier linguistic terrorism / Mike Mena

"You are not allowed to speak Spanish! This is an American hospital!" : Puerto Ricans' experiences with linguistic discrimination and otherness in central Florida / Alessandra Rosa, Elizabeth Aranda, and Hilary Dotson

Black Spanish, white leanings, trigueño mythologies in Puerto Rico / Michelle Ramos Pelicia and Sharon Elise

Resistance. The enchantment of language resistance in Puerto Rico / Kevin Alejandrez and Ana Liberato

Subtracting Spanish and forcing English : my lived experience in Texas public schools / José Angel Gutiérrez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Spanish language in the United States.

ISBN:

9781003257509

100325750X

9781000530995

100053099X

9781000531107

1000531104

Publisher Number:

40031098553

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