Statistics on Language Ability and Use
The English-speaking Ability of Spanish-speakers and Latinxs
The Desire to Maintain Spanish and the Sorrow of Language Loss
Factors Impacting Language Maintenance and Shift
Spanish Language Maintenance and Shift in the US
Discussion Questions and Activities for Chapter 2
Chapter 3The History of Spanish and Spanish-speakers in the US
Spanish Colonization in North America and the Caribbean
US Expansionism and Spanish in the US
Black and White Legends, Hispanophilia and Oñate’s Foot
(Im)migration and Spanish in the US
Discussion Questions and Activities for Chapter 3
Chapter 4Language Ideologies
Hegemony and Symbolic Domination
Language Ideologies: Bridging the Linguistic and the Social
The Consequences of Language Ideologies: Power, Politics and Policy
The Standard Language Ideology
The One Nation–One Language Ideology
Normative Monolingualism and the Zero-sum Ideology
Monoglossic and Heteroglossic Ideologies
Language Commodification and Instrumentality
The Relative Worth of English and Spanish
Spanish as Essential to Latinx Identity versus Language as a Choice
Discussion Questions and Activities for Chapter 4
Chapter 5Race, Racialization and Latinx Ethnoracial Identity
Variability in the Construction of Race
Comparing Constructions of Race in Latin America and the US
Migration and Racial Identities
The Ethnoracial Identity of Latinxs in the US Census and Beyond
Discussion Questions and Activities for Chapter 5
Chapter 6Language and Identity