The Spanish language in the United States: Rootedness, racialization, and resistance.

The book illustrates that speaking Spanish is tied to being from another country, portraying the message that any language other than English is not compatible with living in the United States (p. 105). I The Spanish language in the United States i , edited by José A. Cobas, Bonnie Urciuoli, Joe R. Feagin, and Daniel J. Delgado, aims to illustrate the sociopolitical situation of Spanish and Spanish speakers in the United States by addressing the rootedness of the language in the country, its racialization, and the resistance of Spanish speakers toward that racialization. By taking this stance, the book revitalizes the origins of approaches to studying Spanish in the United States, which was intimately connected with Latinx activism. The book brings together the study of Spanish in the United States with an activist stance centered on the defense of the cultural, political, and economic rights of Latinxs in the United States. [Extracted from the article]