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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