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This is the most comprehensive book I've ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language. -- Jorge Ramos-- (08/28/2018)

Rosina Lozano's An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States is 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 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 *

This is the most comprehensive book I've ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language. -- Jorge Ramos-- (08/28/2018) Rosina Lozano's An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States is 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. -- (02/01/2019) An American Language is 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 (02/01/2019)

This is the most comprehensive book I've ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language. -- Jorge Ramos * Jorge Ramos *

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Rosina Lozano is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.

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