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Title

Language loyalties : a source book on the official English controversy / edited by James Crawford ; with an afterword by Geoffrey Nunberg.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

Crawford, James, 1949-

Description

x, 522 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

As late as 1987, two-thirds of the Americans who responded to a national survey believed that English was the official language of the United States. In fact, the Constitution is silent on the issue. Since Senator S.I. Hayakawa first proposed an English Language Amendment in Congress in 1981, Official English has been considered in forty-seven states and adopted by seventeen the amendment is pending in the 102d Congress. Supporters argue that English has always been our common language--a means of resolving conflicts in a nation of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups, and an essential tool of social mobility and cultural integration. Opponents charge that the amendment is unnecessary and that it threatens civil rights, educational opportunities, and free speech, wrapping racist biases in a cloak of patriotism. anguage Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy provides a balanced, comprehensive guide to this complex and often confusing debate. It is an essential handbook and reference for advocates, educators, policymakers, jurists, scholars, and citizens who seek to join this debate fully informed. Addressing the issues involved in developing America's first planned national language policy, James Crawford has expertly collected and introduced more than eighty-five source documents and articles.

Subject

• Geschichte 1970-1990
• Language policy > United States
• English language > Political aspects > United States
• Nationalism
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-505) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Editor's introduction / James Crawford -- pt. I. Historical roots of U.S. language policy -- A Polyglot nation (1983) / Diego Castellanos -- The German language in Pennsylvania (1753) / Benjamin Franklin -- Why no official tongue? (1976) / Shirley Brice Heath -- Proposal for an American Language Academy (1780) / John Adams -- Declaration of linguistic independence (1789) / Noah Webster -- Federal English (1987) / Dennis Baron -- "American" as official language (1923) / Washington J. McCormick -- Policies toward American Indian languages: a historical sketch (1992) / Jon Reyhner -- "Barbarous dialects should be blotted out ..." (1887) / J.D.C. Atkins -- Spanish language rights in California: constitutional debates (1879) -- Language rights and New Mexico statehood (1972) / U.S. Commission on Civil Rights -- English and colonialism in Puerto Rico (1978) / Language Policy Task Force -- Crusade for Americanization (1988) / John Higham. One Flag, One Language (1917) / Theodore Roosevelt -- pt. II. The Debate over Official English -- A Chronology of the Official English Movement (1990) / Jamie B. Draper and Martha Jimenez -- The Case for Official English (1985) / S.I. Hayakawa -- Official English: Another Americanization Campaign? (1985) / Joseph Leibowicz -- Proposed Official English Amendments to the U.S. Constitution (1981-89) -- The Misdirected Policy of Bilingualism (1983) / Walter Huddleston -- Viva la Roja, Blanca y Azul (1984) / Baltasar Corrada -- Preserve the Primacy of English (1988) / Norman Shumway -- Official English: A Concession to Nativism (1988) / Stephen J. Solarz -- U.S. English (1983) / Guy Wright -- "Ohio English": A Modest But More Specific and Patriotic Proposal Than the One Offered Recently by U.S -- English (1988) / Roger Shuy -- Dade County "Antibilingual" Ordinance (1980) -- State Official Language Statutes and Constitutional Amendments (1920-88) -- Prop. 63 Deserves Approval (1986) / San Francisco Examiner -- Language Purity (1986) / Bangor Daily News -- Legislating Language (1987) / Denver Post -- English-Only a Mistake: Amendment Sends Wrong Message to Tourists (1988) / Palm Beach Post -- Vote No on Bigotry (1988) / Tempe Daily News Tribune -- Ruling Upholds Need To Respect Free Speech (1990) / San Antonio Light -- In Defense of Our Common Language. . . (1984) / U.S. English -- Resolution on Language Rights (1987) / Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages -- Resolution Opposing Official English/English Only Measures (1989) / Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund -- The English Plus Alternative (1987) / English Plus Information Clearinghouse -- English Plus Resolution (1989) / New Mexico Legislature -- Native American Language Act (1990) -- pt. III. Symbolic Implications of Language Conflict -- "Talk English -- You Are in the United States" (1988) / Carlos Alberto Montaner -- The Displaced Anxieties of Anglo-Americans (1988) / Joshua Fishman -- What's behind Official English? (1988) / James Crawford -- On the Curious Question of Language in Miami (1992) / Max Castro -- Language Struggles in a Changing California Community (1992) / John Horton and Jose Calderon -- What Happens When English Only Comes to Town? A Case Study of Lowell, Massachusetts (1992) / Camilo Perez-Bustillo -- The English Only Movement: Social Bases of Support and Opposition among Anglos and Latinos (1992) / Carol Schmid -- Language, Power, and Identity in Multiethnic Miami (1992) / Joanne Bretzer -- English Plus: Responding to English Only (1992) / Mary Carol Combs -- pt. IV. The Question of Minority Language Rights -- The Confusing State of Minority Language Rights (1986) / Bill Piatt -- Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) -- U.S. ex rel. Negron v. New York (1970) -- Soberal-Perez v. Heckler (1982) -- The Educational Rights of Language-Minority Children (1992) / Martha Jimenez -- Lau v. Nichols (1974) -- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School Children v. Ann Arbor School District (1979) -- Bilingual Ballots: Their History and a Look Forward (1992) / John Trasvina -- Castro v. State of California (1970) -- Puerto Rican Organization for Political Action (PROPA) v.

ISBN

• 0226120155 (acid-free paper)
• 0226120163 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^91029445^

OCLC

24320930

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library