Latinxness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latinx + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2018, Renee Christine Romano, Claire Bond Potter, editors, Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
text: How might my Latinxness/Mexican heritage come into conflict with students who support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?
ref: 2019, W. Carson Byrd, Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, Sarah M. Ovink, editors, Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2019, Rachel Valentina González, Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 99:
text: [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.
ref: 2019, Mia Fischer, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, pages 111 and 113:
text: What they envisioned from the experiential and social modality of their transness, their queerness, their Blackness and Latinxness was a different kind of “government.”
ref: 2020, Marquis Bey, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Nicole Hodges Persley, Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and Performance, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 182:
text: As such, they disdained the identitarian stance of Chicanx or darker modes of Latinxness (Nieto-Phillips, 2004).
ref: 2022, Alexis Padilla, “LatDisCrit: Exploring Latinx Global South DisCrit Reverberations as Spaces Toward Emancipatory Learning and Radical Solidarity”, in Subini A. Annamma, Beth A. Ferri, David J. Connor, editors, DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series), Teachers College Press, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Latinx.
Coordinate terms: Latinaness
Latinoness