The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Sebastian, Four Mothers, Restless, and The Most Precious of Cargoes
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Latinx: The New Force in American Politics And Culture
by Ed Morales
(Verso, £20)
LATINX ( “La-Teen-Ex”) is the gender-neutral word for those in the US of Latin American origin or descent. By 2050 they will account for a quarter of the US population — at the moment, there are around 58 million of them.
[[{"type":"media","fid":"8350","view_mode":"inlineright","instance_fields":"override","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""}]]According to Ed Morales in this book, the term Latinx term describes “the in-between space in which they live, which allows [the construction of] self-images that include a wide variety of racial, national and even gender-based identifications.”
He argues that the Latinx’s political and linguistic empowerment, as well as their view of race inherited from nation-building ideologies, is not only altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states but is posing narratives that challenge and resist Anglo-US paradigms.
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