List of Illustrations viii
Introduction 1
PART ONE. A Language of Politics, 1848–1902 19
1. United by Land 21
2. Translation, a Measure of Power 38
3. Choosing Language 67
4. A Language of Citizenship 89
5. The United States Sees Language 111
PART TWO. A Political Language, 1902–1945 135
6. A Language of Identity 137
7. The Limits of Americanization 167
8. Strategic Pan-Americanism 191
9. The Federal Government Rediscovers Spanish 211
10. Competing Nationalisms: New Mexico and Puerto Rico 232
Epilogue 253
Acknowledgments 267
Abbreviations 271
Notes 273
Select Bibliography 333
Rosina Lozano is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.
"A well-written and -researched account of the complicated
history of language in the United States and its relationship to
power and people."
*History of Education Quarterly*
"An outstanding contribution to historiography. It will become a
standard reference on language in the American Southwest. Its
wealth of primary sources and thematic interventions in a variety
of topics brilliantly demonstrates just how much can be uncovered
by a focus on that most basic of topics—language."
*Southwestern Historical Quarterly*
"An American Language is not only an important book because the
conflict over who gets to speak Spanish in the U.S. continues, but
because Lozano does a thorough job at documenting and telling the
history of Spanish in U.S. society. Lozano has made a significant
contribution not only to the history of Spanish, but to language
policy, politics, and planning. It is an asset to language rights
advocates and pushes the boundaries of Spanish in the U.S. as a
field of inquiry."
*Spanish in Context*
"An American Language provides an original discussion of linguistic
citizenship and offers insight into the historical racialization of
Spanish-speakers. . . . Lozano skillfully garners archival
sources to offer an insightful comparative analysis of the changing
status of Spanish in the United States, and the role that
Spanish-speakers—from treaty citizens to Chicanos—played in
refusing second-class citizenship based on their use of
Spanish."
*Journal of American History*
"A sophisticated and intricate narrative about the foundational
history of Spanish in the United States, as well as the history of
ethnic Mexican U.S. citizens (treaty citizens, Mexican immigrants,
and U.S.–born citizens of Mexican descent)."
*Journal of Arizona History*
"Con este título la profesora Lozano hace una valiosa aportación al
estudio de la historia de los hispanohablantes en el sur de los
Estados Unidos, analizando su contexto político y social. La autora
ha demostrado con este trabajo tan revelador que se pueden abrir
nuevos caminos dentro de esa fructífera vía, aún poco
investigada."
*Journal of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies*
"Lozano has made a strong case for language as a tool for
expressing power. . . . In sum, the author succeeds at illuminating
the dynamic history of Spanish language rights in the United
States. And, in the process she also offers an important corrective
to the notion of a monolingual national politic."
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implications of its findings surely reach to our day."
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