Vol. V edición Nº 19
This article examines the Casa de CulturaAfrouruguaya's (the House of Afro-Uruguayan Culture's) national multimedia initiative "Borremos el racismo del lenguaje" (Let's erase racism from language). I discuss the origins of this campaign, its rationale, objectives, intended results, and the public commentary it evokes.While this campaign focuses on racist language within Uruguayan society, the examples I presenthere are not limited to the Uruguayan variety of Spanish: they are common expressions found in many varieties of Spanish. I examine the duties of the Real Academia Española, the means by which ...