Latinx

1. USnot comparableOf Latin American descent or origin.First known use 21st c.

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   "Black and/or Latinx transgender people often find ourselves the target of increased police hostility,..."

   2015, Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, →ISBN

   There is also the fact that, from an early age, people of color— especially young black people and to some extent Hispanic and Latinx/Latino/Latina people—are automatically sexualized to a higher degree by white observers [...]

   2015, Julie Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, →ISBN

   […] anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, […]

   2016, Charles J. Sykes., Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education, →ISBN, page 188

   Police found no weapon on 93% of the people stopped, and it is unclear what was found on the remaining 7%. Actually, among people that the police frisked, black and Latinx people were less likely than white people to have a weapon on them.

   2019 November 18, Derecka Purnell, “Bloomberg's weak apology for stop-and-frisk is too little, too late”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: Latine, Latin@

plural Latinxs · plural Latinxes

1. USA Latin person (of any gender); a Latino or Latina.

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   @nmoon Looks can be deceiving, but I "see" no Latinx, several multi-racials, 3 whites 90% AfrAm. I don't see anyone who looks solely AsAmer

   2008 July 26, Elisa Camahort Page, “Elisa Camahort Page on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2016

   @metalmujer @soylamar there's also a variant with an x (Latinxs, maestrxs, etc.) but not quite as popular as @

   2011 April 20, Karari Kue, “Karari Kue on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2016

   @kararikue @metalmujer I would love to read more abt the variations of Latin@ Latinx send me links, working on a presentation on diversity

   2011 April 21, Reina Valenzuela, “Reina Valenzuela on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2016

   Asian Latinxs … Chicanxs/Latinxs …

   2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30

   Exclusion mainly occurs because Latinxs are conceived by the dominant Euroamerican culture as not belonging, as perpetual “illegals.”

   2016, Miguel A. De La Torre, The U.S. Immigration Crisis: Toward an Ethics of Place, page 72

   Synonyms: Latine, Latin@