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Latinxness

Latinxness noun: the quality or characteristic of being Latinx.

Noun

Latinxness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or characteristic of being Latinx.
    • 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.2018, Renee Christine Romano, Claire Bond Potter, editors, Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN
    • How might my Latinxness/Mexican heritage come into conflict with students who support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?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

Examples of Latinxness in a sentence

  • What they envisioned from the experiential and social modality of their transness, their queerness, their Blackness and Latinxness was a different kind of “government.”2020, Marquis Bey, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN:
  • As such, they disdained the identitarian stance of Chicanx or darker modes of Latinxness (Nieto-Phillips, 2004).2022, Alexis Padilla, “LatDisCrit: Exploring Latinx Global South DisCrit Reverberations as Spaces Toward Emancipatory Learning and Radical...

Origin of Latinxness

From Latinx + -ness.

Questions about Latinxness

What does Latinxness mean?
Latinxness means the quality or characteristic of being Latinx.
How do you use Latinxness in a sentence?
What they envisioned from the experiential and social modality of their transness, their queerness, their Blackness and Latinxness was a different kind of “government.”
What part of speech is Latinxness?
Latinxness is a noun.

Words near Latinxness in the dictionary

  1. latinos
  2. Latinos/as
  3. Latins
  4. Latinx
  5. Latinxes
  6. Latinxness
  7. Latinxs
  8. Latinxua
  9. lation
  10. latipinnate
  11. latipinnates

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