Summary:
La lengua de los hispanos unidos de América is a chronicle of the Spanish language and the Hispanic community in the United States in the first decades of the 21st century. Beyond the play on words, the title refers to "united Hispanics" to focus attention on the Hispanic or Latino community as a whole, its resilient nature, and its hallmarks. The iron law of the disappearance of immigrant languages within three generations remains unfulfilled in the United States, because here Spanish is much more than a language of immigrants. This "chronicle" presents various writing registers: newspaper columns, academic articles, blog posts. Its content has been organized by theme: language, coexistence, education, repression, everyday scenes, and profiles of major cities. All of them project the lights and shadows of the Hispanic reality in the United States of America.