Contemporary Hispanic Quotations

The casual reader may be forgiven for expressing surprise that a volume that offers a selection of the thoughts of notable figures of Spanish descent contains barely a word in the Spanish language. However, the aim of this volume is not to provide quotations in Spanish but to make some, at least, of the culture of the USA’s largest minority population accessible to the non‐Spanish‐speaking majority. All the more surprising then to discover that the book also contains a two‐page appendix of Spanish proverbs and examples of graffiti from the Hispanic gang culture. The authors are both from US academic...