Introduction
Part 1. U.S. State, Territorial, and Freely Associate State
Language Rights Legislation
1 Language Rights in the Fifty States of the United States
2 Language Rights in the Territories of the United States and the
Freely Associated States
Part 2. U.S. Federal Language Rights Legislation
3 Language Rights in the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act
of 1964
4 Language Rights in the Workplace in the United States
Part 3. Language Rights in the Southwest of the United States
5 Language Rights in the Southwest of the United States and the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
6 Language Rights and Devolution in the Southwest of the United
States
Part 4. Language Rights in the Pacific Island Territories of the
United States
7 Language Rights in the United States Island Territory of Guam
8 Language Rights in the United States Island Territory of the
Northern Mariana Islands
9 Summary, Conclusion, and Directions for Future Research
Eduardo D. Faingold is professor of Spanish and linguistics at the University of Tulsa.
Language Rights and the Law in the United States is a great
publication on languages issues in the US about legal point of
view. Dr. Faingold analyses scientifically and in a very exhaustive
way the hands-off and the hands-on, the explicit and implicit, the
official and non-official, the native and no-native different
language legislations in the US. It is a remarkable publication
written by a linguist who thinks like a lawyer.
*Joseph-G. Turi, President and Secretary-General of the
International Academy of Linguistic Law*
The issues surrounding language rights, and the violations of
language rights, have in recent years gained increasing attention
in settings around the world. Language rights have also been the
focus of considerable scholarly work by applied linguists and
others interested in matters of language, language policy, language
in education, and language planning. In the United States, the
incredible complexity of questions of language rights has rarely
been clearly recognized, let alone cogently analyzed. In Language
Rights and the Law in the United States and its Territories,
Eduardo Faingold provides an invaluable critical examination of the
legal and constitutional issues surrounding language rights in the
many contexts that exist in the United States: in the constitutions
of the different states, in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in the
historical experiences of the US Southwest, and in Puerto Rico, the
US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American
Samoa. This volume provides a unique treatment of an important and
timely topic, and will be of interest and value to a wide variety
of readers, including not only linguists, but also those with
backgrounds in such diverse disciplines as education, history,
international relations, law, political science, and many other
areas in the social sciences.
*Timothy Reagan, University of Maine*
A painstakingly thorough review of cases illustrating the interplay
between de facto and de jure policymaking in the United States and
how these afford or deny minority speakers’ language rights. Highly
unique, this book accessibly navigates detailed study of history,
linguistics, legislation, and litigation in praiseworthy pursuit of
providing for policymakers, politicians, and other decision-makers
specific guidance on how to leverage the law for the promotion of
minority language rights.
*Sarah C. K. Moore, Center for Applied Linguistics*
The book, the culmination of years of study of US language policies
by a leading expert in language policy, provides a comprehensive
overview of language policies, and policies bearing on language, in
the United States and US territories. The book will serve as an
important source of information for students of language policy and
for policymakers everywhere.
*Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford*
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