TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lozano,Rosina
TI  - An American language: the history of Spanish in the United States 
T2  - American crossroads
SN  - 9780520297067 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PC 4826 L925a 2018
U1  - 460 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Spanish language
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Southwest, New
KW  - 1848-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-353) and index; United by land -- Translation, a measure of power -- Choosing language -- A language of citizenship -- The United States sees language -- A language of identity -- The limits of Americanization -- Strategic pan-Americanism -- The federal government rediscovers Spanish -- Competing nationalisms : New Mexico and Puerto Rico
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
ER  -