R osina L ozano . An American Language

Rosina Lozano’s An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States is a splendid book, and I am not prone to hyperbole. One of the most important major works on the politics of the Spanish language in the United States, it ranges from the conquest of its speakers in 1848, to its formation as a political language of the United States by 1945, to a brief but highly informative epilogue that reaches the present. Basing her work on intensive and extensive archival research at libraries including the Huntington, the Bancroft, and the rich trove of the Zimmerman Library’s Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) at the University of New Mexico, the author has deeply mined the original documents and taken heed of the very best scholars of the U.S.-Mexico border region, including Felipe Gonzales, Albert Camarillo, George I. Sanchez, Samuel Truett, and many others. After intensive culling and sharpening...

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