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Chican@ en · NOUN

Etymology

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Meanings

1. (neologism) A 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 111:
   • 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:

Forms

Synonyms

Chicane · Chicanx