latinidad
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad."
- "In my attempt to better understand Latino masculinities I have developed a framework that combines latinidad and gender."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Do these cultural texts take part in a reverse discourse against the homogenizing penchant of Latinidad?"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Latīnitās