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Latinos in the heartland : proceedings of the 12th annual conference : positive steps toward a pluralist society, St. Louis, Missouri, June 12-14, 2013 / Stephen Jeannetta and Corinne Valdivia, editors ; with the assistance of Katarina Sostaric and Lindsey Saunders. (OCLC #889753646)

The record for this title includes the subject headings:

    650 0 ǂa Hispanic Americans ǂz Middle West.
    651 0 ǂa Middle West ǂx Emigration and immigration.

The MARC field 043 (Geographic Area Code) is used if a subject heading assigned to the item has a geographic term in any form or position.

The code for Middle West (on the MARC Code List for Geographic Areas) is:

    043 __ ǂa n-usc--

You can generate these fields quickly in OCLC (from the 6XX) using the macro OCLC!Generate043.

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Los orígenes de la lengua española en América : los primeros cambios en las Islas Canarias, las Antillas y Castilla del Oro. (OCLC #881499422)

I think this is the first time I’ve used America in a subject heading; often the books I catalog with “America” in the title are actually about the United States, but this one really is about the Americas in general, including surrounding islands.

I included the very broad geographic area codes:

043 __ ǂa n------ ǂa s------