Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: On Describing Spanish- Speaking Communities -- Spanish in the Southwest: Language Maintenance or Shift? -- Hispanic Attitudes in Northwest Indiana and New York -- Language Maintenance Among New York Puerto Ricans -- Pan-Hispanism and Subcommunity in Washington D.C. -- Children's Storytelling Strategies -- In the Match between Spanish Dialects, Who is the Referee? -- Section 2: Using Spanish in Public Life -- Spanish Language Planning in the United States -- Language as a Barrier to Health Care -- Testing Bilingual Language Proficiency: An Applied Approach -- The Court Interpreters Certification Test Design -- Bilingual Education and Language Shift -- Spanish in United States Broadcasting -- Editors Epilogue