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Through the act of writing, naming, using language, anti-racist and anti-colonial discursive practice as power; this piece as resistance deconstructs the common term, discourse, and narrative of “hispanic”. The naming of “hispanic” which is imposed on peoples of Latin-America/Abya Yala and its diaspora, is dismantled and unveiled as exclusionary eurocentric, white supremacist, racist, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-gender-non-binary. It also indicates our responsibilities to (re)activate new imaginings and futurities for our peoples, meanwhile opposing language that perpetuates the white supremacist system including its consequential materiality of language on non-dominant bodies.
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The term Latinx moves beyond the gender binary of Latin@, Latina and/or the masculine centric term Latino. The “x” makes it inclusive to gender non-conforming and gender-fluid peoples (Scharron-Del Rio and Aja 2015).
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The term Afro-Latin-America centres Black-African presence and identities in Latin-America and its diaspora (Benson 2016).
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Vásquez Jiménez, A. (2018). Dismantling the White Supremacist Term and Discourse of “Hispanic”. In: Sefa Dei, G., Hilowle, S. (eds) Cartographies of Race and Social Difference. Critical Studies of Education, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97076-9_8
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