“Hispanic” is a misguided blanket term when you consider the complex identities within the Latinx community.
While it’s still unclear whether the 2020 census will include a citizenship question, “Hispanic,” it should be known,, or may have a different meaning in other places. People from Colombia or El Salvador or Peru or any other Latin country don’t really refer to themselves as Hispanic. So it’s important to question the structures in which the government uses "Hispanic," not only in official forms but during Hispanic Heritage Month, too.
"It drives me crazy when I see a poster for Hispanic Heritage Month and I see a flamenco dancer," Pierce says; he refers to this monthlong celebration as a "Band-Aid." "What type of heritage are you privileging? Without having these nuanced and difficult conversations, we’re gonna keep marginalizing people.
While it took me a while to warm up to "Latinx" as an identifier, it feels more authentic because it’s a word we came up with — and its use is clearly growing.last year that "Latinx" is “a very unique American take on identity.” He adds that there’s talk of incorporating the word into their surveys, but they haven’t as of yet.
“'Latinx' fits within our broader history in the U.S. of using various terms to describe our identity,” Lopez said. “It is pan-ethnic, like 'Hispanic,' and political in a sense, like 'Chicano.'” As a Mexican-American who’s been wrongfully pigeonholed my entire life, I am amazed and proud to be part of a Latinx community that's reclaiming its heritage.
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