Chicanx

adj, noun — 2 senses

Chicanx

adj

/t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/

Etymology The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

1

Neologism Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).

  • By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]2016, Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich, Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America, →ISBN:
  • We can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.2016, Iris D. Ruiz, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities, →ISBN:
1 more example
  • Chicanx and Latinx2016, Dána-Ain Davis, Christa Craven, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges,..., →ISBN:
Synonyms
Chican@, Chicane

Chicanx

noun

Etymology The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

1

Neologism A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).

  • It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4:
  • […] Chicanxs are aware of past struggles over space and draw on them in contemporary struggles, which focus on gentrification and its alternative, “gentefication” (the uplift of the neighborhood by locals and other Chicanxs and Latinxs)[…]2023 April 3, Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, Carolin Luiprecht, Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN:
Synonyms
Chican@, Chicane
Related terms
Filipinx, Latinx

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