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Chicanx en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (neologism, not-comparable) Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).
    • Chicanx and Latinx 2016, Dána-Ain Davis, Christa Craven, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges,..., →ISBN:
    • 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:

Coordinates

Latinx

Synonyms

Chican@ · Chicane

Chicanx en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Chicanxs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

Latinx

Descendants

chicanx

Relateds

Latinx · Filipinx

Synonyms

Chican@ · Chican@ · Chicane

Translations (2)

pl chicanx (Translations) · es chicanx (Translations)