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In Brief

In Brief who is latinx? Every day, a new word finds itself in our vocabulary, another label Mora et al. based their study on US-born Latino-identi- to identify with, another box we must put ourselves into. When fying California residents. They found that nearly a quarter of people started to catch onto the term Latinx, a gender-neutral respondents identified with the term “Latinx,” especially when alternative to saying Latino/a, it garnered mixed reactions rang- positioned as complementary to words like “Latino” and “His- ing from excitement and gratitude to backlash and confusion. panic” rather than as mutually exclusive. This study considers a In their recent article for Social Forces, Mora, Perez, and Vargas variety of factors such as political ideology, birth cohort, ethnicity, unpack the symbolic power of ethnoracial labels like Latinx immigrant generation, and socioeconomic status. The results within generational politics, giving insight into how and by show that younger generations tend to identify with Latinx much whom these identity labels become used among the diaspora. more often than older generations, with Generation Z having This study emphasizes how power relations become embed- the highest use rate. Latinx term usage is also associated with ded into identity labels, especially by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contexts SAGE

In Brief

Contexts , Volume 21 (2): 4 – May 1, 2022
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10.1177/15365042221107654
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who is latinx? Every day, a new word finds itself in our vocabulary, another label Mora et al. based their study on US-born Latino-identi- to identify with, another box we must put ourselves into. When fying California residents. They found that nearly a quarter of people started to catch onto the term Latinx, a gender-neutral respondents identified with the term “Latinx,” especially when alternative to saying Latino/a, it garnered mixed reactions rang- positioned as complementary to words like “Latino” and “His- ing from excitement and gratitude to backlash and confusion. panic” rather than as mutually exclusive. This study considers a In their recent article for Social Forces, Mora, Perez, and Vargas variety of factors such as political ideology, birth cohort, ethnicity, unpack the symbolic power of ethnoracial labels like Latinx immigrant generation, and socioeconomic status. The results within generational politics, giving insight into how and by show that younger generations tend to identify with Latinx much whom these identity labels become used among the diaspora. more often than older generations, with Generation Z having This study emphasizes how power relations become embed- the highest use rate. Latinx term usage is also associated with ded into identity labels, especially by

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