Meanings
plural Chican@s
- neologismA Chicano or Chicana.
One of the most beautiful things about Chican@s is that for those who become aware, there is truly no generation gap. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters simply enjoy working together for the betterment of La Raza.
2011, Nephtalí De León, Chican@s: Our Background and Our Pride, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 1111 more example
The history generated by those presuppositions—and, tautologically, the presuppositions that continue to be sustained through that history—is enmeshed with the cultural and political mobilization of Chican@s as an oppositional group ...
2010, Sandra K. Soto, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire, University of Texas Press, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
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