Introduction -- Pedro Henríquez Ureña: the making of a Latinamericanist -- Linguistic ideologies and the history of linguistic ideas -- Nationalism and Hispanoamericanism in the Dominican Republic and Latin America -- Pedro Henríquez Ureña in Hispanic linguistics -- Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the whitening of Dominican identity -- Conclusion
Summary
The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies