Cotton Mather's Spanish lessons : a story of language, race, and belonging in the early Americas /

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...

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Main Author: Gruesz, Kirsten Silva, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2022].
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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.
Physical Description:326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674971752
0674971752