Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. History and theory -- Chapter 1 Mexican indigenous languagesin the -- twenty-first century -- Chapter 2 The Indianization of Spaniards in New -- Spain -- Chapter 3 The multiple dimensions of language -- maintenance and shift in colonial Mexico -- Chapter 4 Socio-historical determinants in the -- survival of Mexican indigenous languages -- Part II. Language policy -- Chapter 5 Legislating diversity in twenty-first -- century Mexico -- Chapter 6 Centralization vs. local initiatives. -- Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languages -- Chapter 7 The Mexican indigenous languages and the -- national censuses: 1970-2000 -- Part III. Bilingualism and bilingual -- education -- Chapter 8 Local language promoters and new -- discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala -- Chapter 9 Bilingual education: Strategy for -- language maintenance or shift of Yucatec Maya? -- Chapter 10 Intervention in indigenous education. -- Culturally-sensitive materials for bilingual Nahuatl speakers -- Chapter 11 Stages of bilingualism. Local -- conversational practices among Mazahuas -- IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 12 Language policy. Past, present, and -- future -- Backmatter