political agendas of dominant groups. The author also looks at the
opposite social force: the actions (or lack of actions in the form of passive
resistance) that Spanish speakers take in order to resist external pressure
to abandon Spanish for English.
Lipski, J. M. (2008) Varieties of Spanish in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press.
For information on variation in Spanish in the U.S., this is a good source
of information.
Mendoza-Denton, N. (2008) Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth
Gangs. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
This is a linguistic/anthropological study of Mexican American girls of
high school age. Anyone interested in Chicano culture, especially in
Northern California, would find this a very worthwhile read.
A Class Apart:
Particularly worthwhile is this PBS American Experience documentary:
“From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case.
The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took
Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style
discrimination.” The documentary is available online: http://goo.gl/8s3U.
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