Meaning of Latinxness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality or characteristic of being Latinx.

uncountable

Examples

“Yet the extent to which the fact of Miranda’s Latinxness should matter in critical assessments of Hamilton has become an open question for a range of observers, perhaps especially for Latinx theatermakers.”

“How might my Latinxness/Mexican heritage come into conflict with students who support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?”

“The latter video features a multicultural cast in order to take control over cultural stereotypes and ignorance that it reworks from a new generational perspective of Latinxs in the United States who are always in the process of proving their worth and value in an Anglicized socioconsumer system and proving their authentic Latinxness in intergenerational social contexts.”

“[George] Zimmerman’s passing as white, partially enabled by the physical invisibility and unmarkedness of his Latinxness as well as his investment in the security state by protecting his neighborhood’s “borders” as a citizen watchdog, demonstrates that in the era of colorblindness, the stigmatizing of racial groups no longer has to perfectly concur with a phenotype or color line.”

“What they envisioned from the experiential and social modality of their transness, their queerness, their Blackness and Latinxness was a different kind of “government.””

“Watching the actors sing the song, one can envision a DJ hand mixing and scratching their individual voices together to weave a sonic and visual scene of intersection that allows the different experiences of Latinxness to remain ethnically and nationally specific, while stressing the urgency of a pan-Latinx solidarity.”

“As such, they disdained the identitarian stance of Chicanx or darker modes of Latinxness (Nieto-Phillips, 2004).”

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