Latinx

latinx English Etymology en Reinforced by es-US latinx. Pronunciation en /ləˈtiːn.ɛks/ RP en /ləˈtin.ɛks/ /læ-/ /lɑː-/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-RajanD100-Latinx.wav CA en ɪnɛks ɪŋks 3,2 en La ti nx Adjective - en chiefly US see usage notes Of Latin American descent or origin. from 21st c. en Latine Latin@ which see for more en 2015 Eric A. Stanley; Nat Smith Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex 1849352356 "Black and/or Latinx transgender people often find ourselves the target of increased police hostility,..." en 2015 Julie Decker The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality 1510700641 There is also the fact that, from an early age, people of color— especially young black people and to some extent Hispanic and Latinx/Latino/Latina people—are automatically sexualized to a higher degree by white observers [...] en 2016 Charles J. Sykes. Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education 1250071593 188 anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, en 18 November 2019 Derecka Purnell Bloomberg's weak apology for stop-and-frisk is too little, too late The Guardian Police found no weapon on 93% of the people stopped, and it is unclear what was found on the remaining 7%. Actually, among people that the police frisked, black and Latinx people were less likely than white people to have a weapon on them. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/18/bloomberg-apology-stop-and-frisk https://web.archive.org/web/20261018094421/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/18/bloomberg-apology-stop-and-frisk 18 October 2026 Noun s * + en chiefly US see usage notes A Latin person (of any gender); a Latino or Latina. en Latine Latin@ which see for more en 26 Jul 2008 ElisaC 869222913 Elisa Camahort Page https://web.archive.org/web/20161117151259/https://twitter.com/ElisaC/status/869222913 17 November 2016 @nmoon Looks can be deceiving, but I "see" no Latinx, several multi-racials, 3 whites 90% AfrAm. I don't see anyone who looks solely AsAmer 17 November 2016 en 20 Apr 2011 KarariKue 60727774519885824 Karari Kue https://web.archive.org/web/20161117072917/https:/twitter.com/KarariKue/status/60727774519885824 2016-11-17 @metalmujer @soylamar there's also a variant with an x (Latinxs, maestrxs, etc.) but not quite as popular as @ en 21 Apr 2011 SOYLAMAR 61058918603948032 Reina Valenzuela https://web.archive.org/web/20161117073402/https:/twitter.com/SOYLAMAR/status/61058918603948032 2016-11-17 @kararikue @metalmujer I would love to read more abt the variations of Latin@ Latinx send me links, working on a presentation on diversity 2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30: Asian Latinxs [...] Chicanxs/Latinxs [...] en 2016 Miguel A. De La Torre The U.S. Immigration Crisis: Toward an Ethics of Place 72 Exclusion mainly occurs because Latinxs are conceived by the dominant Euroamerican culture as not belonging, as perpetual “illegals.” 2016 Spring, La Vida Nueva, page 48: [And] there is no reason Latinxs shouldn't be the ones to fill them. en Kristin Lené Hole; Dijana Jelača Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction w:Routledge 2019 978-1-138-66789-1 Do stars with “hyphenated identities” have a responsibility to their constituencies (for example, a Latinx star to young Latinxes)? en Author Biographies Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez; Marjorie Faulstich Orellana Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups New York, N.Y.; London w:Routledge 2019 xiii 978-1-138-59787-7 Her [Lucila D. Ek’s] research focuses on the bilingualism, biliteracy, and identities of Latinxes. en Grisel Y. Acosta Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity w:Routledge 2019 978-1-138-39376-9 Similarly, White Latinx people, who can pass in the United States as part of the dominant culture, sometimes experience pressure to not identify as Latinx or are told they are not as Latinx as brown-hued Latinxes. en Teddie M. Potter Foreword Laura Maria Pigozzi Caring for and Understanding Latinx Patients in Health Care Settings w:Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2020 10 978 1 78592 809 3 Dr Pigozzi’s book is essential reading for professionals who want to deliver effective and equitable care for Latinx. en Sheila Bridges-Bond A Bilingual Child Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Diane M. Scott Cases on Communication Disorders in Culturally Diverse Populations Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies IGI Global 2020 92 9781799822615 Seventy percent of Latinxes’ ages 5 and older speak English proficiently, yet English proficiency varies across bilingual communities in the U.S. South Americans have the largest percentage (66.8%) of children who speak English very well, while 43.1% of Mexicans and 41.0% of Central American children (ages 5 – 18 years) speak English less than well. en Edwin David Aponte; Miguel A. De La Torre Introducing Latinx Theologies w:Orbis Books 2020 9781626983724 With the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections being decided by the electoral college rather than the popular vote, the distribution of Latinx is of prime political importance. Latinx are learning that the best defenses against xenophobic laws are U.S. citizenship and the right to vote. en Desiree D. Zerquera; Jasmine Haywood; Martín De Mucha More Than Nuance: Recognizing and Serving the Diversity of the Latinx Community Robert T. Teranishi; Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen; Cynthia M. Alcantar; Edward R. Curammeng Measuring Race: Why Disaggregating Data Matters for Addressing Educational Inequality James A. Banks, editor, Multicultural Education w:Teachers College Press 2020 part II (Unmasking Educational Inequality Through Disaggregated Data) 157 978-0-8077-6360-5 The following section seeks to deepen our understanding of the heterogeneity of Latinxes. en Nicholas Freudenberg From Now to Next: How to Build a Movement for Another World At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health w:Oxford University Press 2021 298 9780190078621 Recent national elections launched millions of young people, women, working people, LGBTQIA+ people; those concerned about the environment; Blacks, Latinxes, and immigrants fighting voter suppression; and others into electoral politics, movement building, and community organizing. en Michael M. Chemers The Theatre of Luis Valdez w:Routledge 2021 9781000472301 GARCÍA I think that's such a great way of thinking about some of the critical issues that we're facing today as Latino/Latina/Latinxes, however you identify yourself, in the United States. en 2022 Kelly Yang New From Here 95 There are twenty-something other kids spread out all over the classroom—on mats, beanbags, wobble cushions, and chairs. They are Black, white, and Latinx. en Kristy Nabhan-Warren Introduction: Una Historia de perseverancia y resiliencia pueblo (A People’s History of Perseverance and Resilience) The Oxford Handbook of Latinx Christianities in the United States w:Oxford University Press 2022 4 9780190875763 The handbook authors draw on their methodological expertise and demonstrate in their individual chapters how Latinx are crafting lived theologies of liberation through their words, actions, and embodied faith. Reimagining Christianity and its theological constructs, and proclaiming what it can be for US Latinx, as well as demonstrating what this looks like, is at the heart of all of the chapters. en Bryan Powell; Gareth Dylan Smith Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the Field Intellect 2022 978-1-78938-628-8 Latinxes often view their achievements as being dependent on the outcome of others. en Stephen C. Finley In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam w:Duke University Press 2022 9781478016137 While Farrakhan’s body gains its meaning through relationship to the Wheel, his true “mother,” Farrakhan is connected to the meaning of black women’s bodies and to all “black” people’s bodies—black in all the colors and “races” of blackness—historically, Native Americans, Asians, Latinxes, and the people of African descent, among whom African Americans are most significant. Usage notes Latinx is used as a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina, including in the plural (where Latinxs can replace long phrases like Latinos and Latinas, or the use of Latinos alone to refer to a mixed-gender group, which some feminists object to), by a small number of Hispanic people and others, mostly younger people, women, and non-binary people.Merriam-Webster: The Word History of LatinxKaty Steinmetz, "Why 'Latinx' Is Succeeding While Other Gender-Neutral Terms Fail to Catch On", April 2, 2018, TimeRaquel Reichard, Why We Say Latinx: Trans & Gender Non-Conforming People Explain, August 29, 2015, LatinaLuis Noe-Bustamante, Lauren Mora, Mark Hugo Lopez, "About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It", Pew Some Hispanic people object to Latinx, considering it nontraditional or "politically correct".Stephen Nuño-Pérez, Gwen Aviles, "Is 'Latinx' elitist? Some push back at the word's growing use", March 7, 2019, NBC News A 2019 poll of 508 Hispanic people found that only 2% chose the term as the one term that best described them;Raquel Reichard, "Hispanic, Latino or Latinx: This Poll Looks at How Our Community Prefers to Identify", Remezcla. a 2020 poll found that only 3% of US adults who identified as Hispanic or Latino also described themselves as Latinx, and only 23% had heard of Latinx (of whom 10% – a total of 2.3% of those polled – preferred using it). A 2021 poll asked Hispanic Americans about their preference among the terms Hispanic, Latino and Latinx; 57% said it did not matter, and 4% chose Latinx; in a follow-up question about which term they lean toward, 5% chose Latinx.en No Preferred Racial Term Among Most Black, Hispanic Adults Social & Policy Issues https://news.gallup.com/poll/353000/no-preferred-racial-term-among-black-hispanic-adults.aspx 5 August 2021 4 August 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20260926164448/https://news.gallup.com/poll/353000/no-preferred-racial-term-among-black-hispanic-adults.aspx 26 September 2026 As of 2023, the use of Latinx is illegal in government communications of the state of Arkansas, and gender-neutral forms including this one have been banned in education spaces in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and criticized by the Royal Spanish Academy.In Argentina, One of the World’s First Bans on Gender-Neutral LanguageSarah Sanders bans use of ‘Latinx’ in Arkansas state documents Some people use en Latine as an alternative, arguing it is more pronounceable in Spanish.Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo, "This Comic Breaks Down Latinx vs. Latine for Those Who Want to Be Gender-Inclusive", October 24, 2019, RemezclaStop using ‘Latinx’ if you really want to be inclusive Related terms en Afro-Latinx Latinxness Chicanx Asian-Latinx Filipinx Descendants es latinx Translations Polish: pl latinx m Portuguese: pt latinx n, pt latine n, pt latin@ n Spanish: es latinx n, es latine n, es latin@ n Turkish: tr latinx n See also en xe en sphinx References Further reading en Ethnonyms LGBTQ Non-binary Social justice