Language, Race, and Society in Latinx Communities

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In this course we will reflect on the role of language in the construction of identity of Latinx in the United States. We will discuss how Spanish is used as a subordinate language in the US, and how this affects the ways in which Latinx see themselves and are discriminated and marginalized. Based on the concepts of race, identity, and symbolic capital, and the use of 'glottopolitics," the politics of language, we will analyze how language is not only a means an instrument of power over a minoritized group but also how Latinx use language to resist discrimination and empower themselves. ¿