latinhood

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Latinhood.

alternative latinhood

1. uncountableThe state, condition, or status of Latin or of being Latin (in all senses); Latinity.

   I have all these people these guiros all these aguacates this prescribed latinhood this Hispaniard name that doesn't agree with English only 5.

   2001, Rachel Martin, Listening Up: Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers and Students

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   Being very light-complexioned and speaking English very well, I determined that I was going to assert my 'Latinhood' and grew a moustache and long sideburns at a time when everyone was neatly trimmed."

   1978, Current Biography Yearbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   The newly discovered Latin connection strengthened the national consciousness of the Rumanians, who successfully employed their Latinhood in their struggles.

   1991, Iván Boldizsár, The New Hungarian Quarterly

   The United States is discursively positioned as an extension of America, the Spanish-Americas, so that its "Latinhood" becomes foregrounded (i.e. why not to think of the United States in terms of its Hispanic heritage?) .

   1993, Elizabeth Lozano, Tele-visions in the United States: Weaving a Hispanic Textuality

   [...] from the meditating warriors who held still at the foot of the dunes; in short, from these interior Arabs who constituted us, who relieved and surpassed us, and to whom we owe the Greek baptism of our vulgar Latinhood.

   2014, Alain Badiou, Creating a Latino Identity in the Nation's Capital