Latinhood

See also: latinhood

English

Alternative forms

• latinhood

Etymology

From Latin +‎ -hood.

Noun

Latinhood (uncountable)

1. The state, condition, or status of Latin or of being Latin (in all senses); Latinity.
   • 1978, Current Biography Yearbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Being very light-complexioned and speaking English very well, I determined that I was going to assert my 'Latinhood' and grew a moustache and long sideburns at a time when everyone was neatly trimmed."

   • 1991, Iván Boldizsár, The New Hungarian Quarterly:

     The newly discovered Latin connection strengthened the national consciousness of the Rumanians, who successfully employed their Latinhood in their struggles.

   • 1993, Elizabeth Lozano, Tele-visions in the United States: Weaving a Hispanic Textuality:

     The United States is discursively positioned as an extension of America, the Spanish-Americas, so that its "Latinhood" becomes foregrounded (i.e. why not to think of the United States in terms of its Hispanic heritage?) .

   • 2001, Rachel Martin, Listening Up: Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers and Students:

     I have all these people these guiros all these aguacates this prescribed latinhood this Hispaniard name that doesn't agree with English only 5.

   • 2014, Alain Badiou, Creating a Latino Identity in the Nation's Capital:

     [...] from the meditating warriors who held still at the foot of the dunes; in short, from these interior Arabs who constituted us, who relieved and surpassed us, and to whom we owe the Greek baptism of our vulgar Latinhood.

Related terms

• Latinness