The Politics Of Language In Puerto Rico
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Author |
: Amílcar Antonio Barreto |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2018-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813063829 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813063825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico by : Amílcar Antonio Barreto
"A [book] rich in detail and analysis, which anyone wanting to understand the language debate in Puerto Rico will find essential."--Arlene Davila, Syracuse University This is the first book in English to analyze the controversial language policies passed by the Puerto Rican government in the 1990s. It is also the first to explore the connections between language and cultural identity and politics on the Caribbean island. Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, both English and Spanish became official languages of the territory. In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that "Spanish only" was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools, with supporters asserting that the dual languages symbolized the island’s commitment to live in harmony with the United States. While the islanders’ sense of ethnic pride was growing, economic dependency enticed them to maintain close ties to the United States. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used the language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood. It will be of interest to linguists, political scientists, students of contemporary cultural politics, and political activists in discussions of nationalism in multilingual communities.
Author |
: Amílcar Antonio Barreto |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2020-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781683401148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 168340114X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico by : Amílcar Antonio Barreto
In 1991, the Puerto Rican government abolished bilingualism, claiming that “Spanish only” was necessary to protect the culture from North American influences. A few years later bilingualism was restored and English was promoted in public schools. This revised edition of The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico is updated with an emphasis on the dual arenas where the language controversy played out—Puerto Rico and the United States Congress—and includes new data on the connections between language and conflicting notions of American identity. This book shows that officials in both San Juan and Washington, along with English-first groups, used these language laws as weapons in the battle over U.S.-Puerto Rican relations and the volatile debate over statehood.
Author |
: Pastora Cafferty |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2019-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000304756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000304752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics Of Language by : Pastora Cafferty
Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and Rivera-Martínez analyze bilingual education policies and programs, particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not, despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.
Author |
: Brenda Domínguez-Rosado |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2015-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443882095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443882097 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity by : Brenda Domínguez-Rosado
Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization. There are presently almost four million people living in Puerto Rico, while the Puerto Rican diaspora has surpassed it with more than this living in the United States alone. Because of this, many members of the diaspora no longer speak PRS, yet consider themselves to be Puerto Rican. Traditional stances against people who do not live on the island or speak the predominant language (PRS) yet wish to identify themselves as Puerto Rican have historically led to prejudice and strained relationships between people of Puerto Rican ancestry. The sample study provided here shows that there is not only a change in attitude towards the traditional link between PRS and Puerto Rican identity (leading to the inclusion of diasporic Puerto Ricans), but also a wider acceptance of the English language itself on this Caribbean island.
Author |
: Jorge R. Schmidt |
Publisher |
: Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1935049941 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781935049944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of English in Puerto Rico's Public Schools by : Jorge R. Schmidt
How have colonial and partisan politics in Puerto Rico affected the language used in public schools? What can we learn from the conflict over the place of English in Puerto Rican society? How has the role of English evolved over time? Addressing these questions, Jorge Schmidt incisively explores the complex relationships among politics, language, and education in Puerto Rico from 1898, when Spain ceded the island to the United States, to the present.
Author |
: Bonnie Urciuoli |
Publisher |
: Waveland Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2013-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478610496 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478610492 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exposing Prejudice by : Bonnie Urciuoli
Urciuolis award-winning book explores how language and the social construction of race, class, and ethnicity shape the lives of working-class Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Her reflexive ethnographic study is a combination of two absorbing features: her analyses of language and power relations based on key principles in semiotic and linguistic anthropology, paired with the authentic voices of individuals who share their lived experiences of speaking Spanish and English. The subjects conversations, interview responses, and anecdotes are saturated with ideas about what correct English means to them. Through these extended transcripts readers gain insight about languages role in cultural dynamics that tangle minority populations in challenges, such as limiting where individuals and families live and work. Urciuolis provocative research and fieldwork give readers a rich understanding of language as the domain in which racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies are experienced.
Author |
: Petra R. Rivera-Rideau |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2015-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822375258 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822375257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remixing Reggaetón by : Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderón criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaetón, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaetón's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaetón, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora.
Author |
: Erwin H. Epstein |
Publisher |
: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105033363818 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics and Education in Puerto Rico by : Erwin H. Epstein
Author |
: Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2001-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195350210 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195350219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective by : Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College
Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.
Author |
: Jorge Duany |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190648695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190648694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Puerto Rico by : Jorge Duany
Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent history. Though they are U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans do not have their own voting representatives in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections (although they are able to participate in the primaries). The island's status is a topic of perennial debate, both within and beyond its shores. In recent months its colossal public debt has sparked an economic crisis that has catapulted it onto the national stage and intensified the exodus to the U.S., bringing to the fore many of the unresolved remnants of its colonial history. Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) provides a succinct, authoritative introduction to the Island's rich history, culture, politics, and economy. The book begins with a historical overview of Puerto Rico during the Spanish colonial period (1493-1898). It then focuses on the first five decades of the U.S. colonial regime, particularly its efforts to control local, political, and economic institutions as well as to "Americanize" the Island's culture and language. Jorge Duany delves into the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico-the inner workings of the Commonwealth government and the island's relationship to the United States. Lastly, the book explores the massive population displacement that has characterized Puerto Rico since the mid-20th century. Despite their ongoing colonial dilemma, Jorge Duany argues that Puerto Ricans display a strong national identity as a Spanish-speaking, Afro-Hispanic-Caribbean nation. While a popular tourist destination, few beyond its shores are familiar with its complex history and diverse culture. Duany takes on the task of educating readers on the most important facets of the unique, troubled, but much beloved isla del encanto.