Spanish-Language Media in the Greater New York Region during the 1980s

2014 ◽  
pp. 256-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. H. Downing
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Spanish Language

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosina Lozano
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Spanish ◽  
Education Act

This epilogue briefly identifies some of the major changes in Spanish language politics since World War II. These include community shifts in activism. For example, the Chicano Movementreclaimed the language and advocated for culturally affirming bilingual education programs. The epilogue also turns to federal support for Spanish instruction with the 1968 Bilingual Education Act and with the 1975 extension to the Voting Rights Act that provides federal protection for ballots in languages other than English. Spanish is no longer a language of just the Southwest and there are major populations of Spanish speakers in cities like Chicago, New York, and Miami today. In 2013, tens of millions of U.S. residents spoke Spanish in their homes. Spanish language perseverance in the United States is due to a long history of Latin American migration to the country. It began as a language of settlement and power in the nineteenth century and has transformed into a language often deemed as foreign or un-American. Spanish is an American language historically and this book has recovered that history.

The Golden Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-130
Author(s):  
Craig Allen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Satellite Links ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Language Network

Period: 1976–1986. The most radiant period in Spanish- language television ensues when SIN’s satellite links provide the U.S. vast international programming. SIN is chief affiliate of Azcárraga Milmo’s multinational network he names “Univision.” Ignoring Fouce’s lawsuit, Anselmo consolidates control. Without competition, turning profits, and freed of Azcárraga’s grip, he pushes numerous initiatives, many unorthodox. His hunger strike in New York obtains a prized World Trade Center transmitting site. Using names of fictitious characters, his letters to the FCC win needed satellite relays. He launches the first Spanish-language network news. Headed by Gustavo Godoy, the newscast excels until Televisa, and its head Jacobo Zabludovsky, attempt its takeover. In the largest-ever mutiny in a U.S. newsroom, Godoy and dozens of news personnel resign. They force Televisa’s retreat. However, a ten-year “golden age” ends with the removal of Anselmo, Azcárraga, and others, and the demise of Spanish International.

Puerto Rican Colonialism, Caribbean Radicalism, and Pueblos Hispanos’s Inter-Nationalist Alliance

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Cristina Pérez Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
World Order ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Caribbean

Drawing from Earl Browder’s papers, this essay examines the Communist-sponsored, New York Spanish-language newspaper Pueblos Hispanos (1943–44), arguing that the publication staged an uneasy alliance between the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the US Communist Party by positioning Puerto Rican independence as central to a wider decolonial Caribbean and postwar world order. By analyzing Pueblos Hispanos’s practice of “inter-nationalism”—a term the author proposes to denote the flexible strategy used to mediate between competing political interests and which can serve as a model for understanding the compromised collaborations between Communist and nationalist leaders in the Caribbean—this essay expands our understanding of Communist influence in Caribbean liberation movements and begins to reinsert the contributions of early-and mid-twentieth-century Puerto Ricans, and more widely, Spanish caribeños, within a Marxist-inflected Caribbean radical tradition.

Breakout of Spanish International

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-87
Author(s):  
Craig Allen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Fixed Duration ◽  
Language Network

Period: 1968–1973. Anselmo, Nicolas, and Villanueva lead a succession of breakthroughs. With launch of WXTV, SIN enters New York. There, Columbia Pictures primes its New York station WNJU as hub of a rival Spanish-language network. In a locale predominated not by Mexican but Caribbean-descended viewers, competition in Spanish-language television begins. Anselmo responds with the first showcasing of Azcárraga’s fixed-duration soap operas called “telenovelas.” Attracting Latinos regardless of nationality, WXTV defeats WNJU and crushes Columbia’s planned network. Tragedy strikes. During rioting, KMEX newscaster Rubén Salazar is killed by police. Despite confrontation with Azcárraga Milmo, Anselmo extends SIN to Miami with purchase of WLTV. With stations in New York and Miami, SIN becomes a coast-to-coast network. However, the elder Azcárraga’s passing exposes his subsidization of SIN and Anselmo’s failure to pay fees.

Bilingual discourse markers in Puerto Rican Spanish

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOURDES TORRES
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
English Language ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Puerto Rican Spanish ◽  
Language Discourse

This study examines bilingual discourse markers in a language contact situation. The focus is on how English-dominant, bilingual, and Spanish-dominant New York Puerto Ricans integrate English-language discourse markers into their Spanish-language oral narratives. The corpus comprises 60 Spanish-language oral narratives of personal experience extracted from transcripts of conversations with New York Puerto Ricans. After a review of the study of discourse markers in language contact situations, the use of English-language discourse markers is compared to the use of Spanish-language markers in the texts. The discussion considers the question of whether English-language discourse markers are more profitably identified as instances of code-switching or of borrowing. Finally, the essay explores how bilingual speakers integrate English discourse markers in their narratives with a pattern of usage and frequency that varies according to language proficiency.

scholarly journals Language Contact: A Study of the Spanish in Two Spanish-Language Presses in Charleston, South Carolina

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-372
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Martínez-Gibson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Hispanic Populations ◽  
Contact Situation

Past studies analyzing the English influence in Spanish-language press in the United States focused on major cities of large Hispanic populations, such as, Miami, New York or Los Angeles. In recent years, the Hispanic population in the Carolinas has been growing quickly and merits studies equivalent to those of the large cities to analyze the effects of the language contact between Spanish and English. This study analyzes the English influence on the Spanish of two Spanish-language presses available in Charleston, South Carolina. The study analyzed the English influence at different linguistic levels in the two different writing styles of articles and advertisements and the types of English influence at the different linguistic levels in these two writing styles. The data were collected from one edition of each of the presses. The results indicated that the English influence found in the Spanish-language press of Charleston, sc is comparable to the findings of past studies in larger cities with greater Hispanic populations. In addition, the outcomes reveal parallels with studies on language acquisition and loss in a contact situation and studies on bilingualism of second language learners and heritage speakers. Furthermore, the findings suggest social effects on language in a contact situation at the varying linguistic levels.

scholarly journals Hispanic journalism in the United States: analysis of four key models

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
José María Albalad Aiguabella
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Media Market

This study focuses on four leading newspapers— el Nuevo Herald (Miami), La Opinión (Los Angeles), El Diario (New York), and El Tiempo Latino (Washington, D.C.)—in order to learn about the editorial and business formulas that work in today’s media market. In addition to helping sustain, spread, and enrich the Spanish language, Hispanic journalism also lends cohesion to large communities in the United States. It is a public service that requires stable journalistic enterprises.

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