Afro-Latinx

adjective

Of mixed African and Latin American descent.

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Meanings

adjectiveAfro-Latinx (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf mixed African and Latin American descent.

    “On the one end, it's for the Afro-Latinx folks like me who really didn't grow up with the language of Blackness in our households. People like me who have realized: I've always known there was a history we didn't talk about...”

    2018 April 10, Natasha S. Alford, “More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina”, in Oprah Daily

Origin

From Afro- + Latinx.

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APA

Afro-Latinx. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afro-Latinx

MLA

“Afro-Latinx.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afro-Latinx. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Afro-Latinx,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afro-Latinx.

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