The term “Latinx” has become a site of contention, like “Latino” once was. Our goal is to propose an articulation of Latina/o/x populations through the term Latinx as a site of possibilities, while clarifying its potential use and the reasoning behind it. Rather than seeing the use of Latinx as a trend, or a rupture, in linguistic usage, we see its use as a continuity of internal shifting group dynamics and disciplinary debates. Complicating the argument that the term Latinx is an imperialist imposition on the Spanish language is possible by reclaiming the “x” history of (racial and ethnic) resistance as a marker of nonwhiteness (for example, in Xicana feminism), while turning to the “x” usage by Latin American and Spanish-speaking activists. Latinx foregrounds tensions among self-naming practices and terms that encompass all members of a diverse and complex ethnoracial group: Latinx acts as a new frame of inclusion, while also posing a challenge for those used to having androcentric terms serve as collective representational proxies.

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拉丁语的想法：带有 X 的拉丁语

“Latinx”一词已成为争论的焦点，就像曾经的“Latino”一样。我们的目标是通过术语 Latinx 作为可能性站点来提出拉丁裔/o/x 族群的表达，同时阐明其潜在用途及其背后的推理。我们没有将拉丁语的使用视为语言使用中的一种趋势或断裂，而是将其视为内部不断变化的群体动态和学科辩论的连续性。通过回收（种族和民族）抵抗的“x”历史作为非白人的标志（例如，在 Xicana 女权主义中），同时转向“ x” 拉丁美洲和西班牙语活动家的使用。