latinidad

alternative Latinidad

1. uncountableThe constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.

   In my attempt to better understand Latino masculinities I have developed a framework that combines latinidad and gender.

   2008, Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Roncamos Porque Podemos": Racialization, Redemption, and Mascu-latinidad, →ISBN

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   It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad.

   2005, Laura C. Valdez-Pagliaro, Writing Latinidad: Mexican Latino and Latina writers contextualizing language, narrative, and culture, page 2

   As the first epigraph to this chapter suggests, Esperanza's response insisted on queer Latina/o ownership of the cultural and political legacy of latinidad and advocated for its central role in figuring queer lives and communities.

   2012, Ramon Rivera-Servera, Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics, →ISBN, page 96

   Drawing on numerous instances in which distinct genre performances butted against one another, this chapter analyzes how musicians justified these boundaries as necessary for distinguishing between diverse strains of latinidad, but also a trend toward musicians collaborating across genre in an attempt to construct a pan-Latino vision of belonging to the city.

   2015, Samuel K. Byrd, The Sounds of Latinidad, →ISBN

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of latinidad.

   Do these cultural texts take part in a reverse discourse against the homogenizing penchant of Latinidad?

   2011, Afif S. Nasreddine, Contemporary Discourses of Latinidad

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   That is, media signifiers of Latinidad rely on the production of familiar ethnic characteristics that communicate national origin through the use of language, dress, or music, such as the use of Spanish or salsa music to signal Latinidad. At the same time, media signifiers of Latinidad depend on phenotypic racial markers such as facial features, hair texture, and skin color.

   2010, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media, →ISBN, page 4

   Global Circulation of Hybridity Angharad N. Valdivia This chapter examines the gendered face of Latinidad as it is transported, manipulated, and articulated by popular media networks under the contemporary conditions of globality.

   2011, Radha Sarma Hegde, Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures, →ISBN, page 53

   Instead, Rodriguez creates a cinematic storyworld where issues of Latinidad seemingly fall to quiescence in favor of the more familiar tropes of the zombie B-flick that appear to be the overt impetus for his Grindhouse collaboration with fellow director Quentin Tarantino.

   2015, Frederick Luis Aldama, Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez, →ISBN, page 122