Title: What is “Latinx”?. An attempt to cohesively explain the… | by Andrea Merodeadora | Medium
Headings: What is “Latinx”?
What is “Latinx”?
Why an ethnicity and not a race?
What race are Latinxs, then?
Wait, I didn’t get that part about mixed Latinxs. What race are they?
So… do Latinxs experience racism?
Latin, Latino, Latinx, hispanic… What is the difference?
So, anyone born or descended from LatAm is Latinx?
What language do Latinxs speak?
Wait, I’m still confused. Are Spaniards/Portuguese/French/Italians… Latinx?
Ok, one last time, short and clear…
Latinxs can be of literally any race. Yes, this includes white. White Latinxs experience xenophobia but not racism.

Content: “Mejorar la raza” isn’t only an intra-familiar issue, though, but it’s been pushed by governments all over Latin America to slowly “cleanse” the racial identity of the country, trying to make us look whiter to gain the approval of the US and Europe. This has led to the erasure of any documentation that could keep registry of people’s heritages, for example; and to governments encouraging white passing people to register themselves as white so that the official demographics would better fit the desired image they wanted to project. This is why a lot of diasporic Latinxs, and even many Latinxs living in Latin America, have no clear racial identity outside of being Latinx: because being proud in one’s non-white racial heritage has historically been shamed in our communities, not because we don’t have a race besides “ Latinx ”. So… do Latinxs experience racism? Image: A graffiti that reads “white girl, take off your hoops!!!” Yes, Brown and Black Latinxs experience racism both in and ouside of Latin America. When we talk about anti-Latinx racism, we mean racism against Brown and Black Latinxs.