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"Despite a pronounced shift away from Eurocentrism in Spanish and Hispanic studies departments in US universities, many implicit and explicit vestiges of coloniality remain firmly in place. While certain national and linguistic expressions are privileged, others are silenced with predictable racial and gendered results. Decolonizing American Spanish challenges not only the hegemony of Spain and its colonial pedagogies, but also the characterization of Spanish as a foreign language in the United States. By foregrounding Latin American cultures and local varieties of Spanish and reconceptualizing the foreign as domestic, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera works to create new conceptual maps, revise inherited ones, and institutionalize marginalized and silenced voices and their stories. Considering the University of Puerto Rico as a point of context, this book brings attention to how translingual solidarity and education, a commitment to social transformation, and the engagement of student voices in their own languages can reinvent colonized education"--

Colonial origins of American diplomatic principles, by M. Savelle.--The Jay treaty: the origins of the American party system, by J. Charles.--South Carolina--A protagonist of the War of 1812, by M. K. Latimer.--The Age of Mercantilism: an interpretation of the American political economy, 1763-1828, by W. A. Williams.--Manifest destiny--an emotion, by E. D. Adams.--The failure of Polk's Mexican War intrigue of 1845, by R. R. Stenberg.--Northern diplomacy and European neutrality, by N. A. Graebner.--A new approach to the origins of Blaine's Pan American policy, by R. H. Bastert.--Cuba, the Philippines, and manifest destiny, by R. Hofstadter.--Progressivism and imperialism: the Progressive movement and American foreign policy, 1898-1916, by W. E. Leuchtenburg.--The changing concept of the Open Door, 1899-1910, by R. A. Esthus