Introduction: The first Spanish imprint in English America -- The global ambitions of a Creole family -- Telling the future of America Mexicana -- From language encounters to language rights -- Becoming a Spanish Indian -- Teaching by catechism and conversation -- Books as keys to the Spanish tongue -- Impressing the word in exotic types -- Racial fears on Franco-Spanish frontiers -- The shipwreck of the family design -- Coda: colonial lessons in Latinidad.
Summary
"In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather's text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today"-- Provided by publisher.
