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FROM BAD BUNNY TO BAD HOMBRES: THE (MIS)REPRESENTATION AND (IN)VISIBILITY OF SPANISH IN THE US

SPANISH 228
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Survey and analysis of the historical and contemporary presence of the Spanish language and its speakers in U.S. communities, pop culture, media, schools and politics. Examination through linguistic, sociolinguistic, raciolinguistic and linguistic-anthropological lenses of how Spanish is used (and misused) by speakers and non-speakers alike to uphold, reproduce or perhaps transform ethnolinguistic, racialized and other social identities, attitudes and ideologies associated with Spanish in the U.S.

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