Meaning of latinidad | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of latinidad.
   alt-of, uncountable
2. The constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.
   uncountable

Examples

“It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad.”

“In my attempt to better understand Latino masculinities I have developed a framework that combines latinidad and gender.”

“As the first epigraph to this chapter suggests, Esperanza's response insisted on queer Latina/o ownership of the cultural and political legacy of latinidad and advocated for its central role in figuring queer lives and communities.”

“Drawing on numerous instances in which distinct genre performances butted against one another, this chapter analyzes how musicians justified these boundaries as necessary for distinguishing between diverse strains of latinidad, but also a trend toward musicians collaborating across genre in an attempt to construct a pan-Latino vision of belonging to the city.”

“That is, media signifiers of Latinidad rely on the production of familiar ethnic characteristics that communicate national origin through the use of language, dress, or music, such as the use of Spanish or salsa music to signal Latinidad. At the same time, media signifiers of Latinidad depend on phenotypic racial markers such as facial features, hair texture, and skin color.”

“Do these cultural texts take part in a reverse discourse against the homogenizing penchant of Latinidad?”

“Global Circulation of Hybridity Angharad N. Valdivia This chapter examines the gendered face of Latinidad as it is transported, manipulated, and articulated by popular media networks under the contemporary conditions of globality.”

“Instead, Rodriguez creates a cinematic storyworld where issues of Latinidad seemingly fall to quiescence in favor of the more familiar tropes of the zombie B-flick that appear to be the overt impetus for his Grindhouse collaboration with fellow director Quentin Tarantino.”

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