Chican@

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Chicano or Chicana. neologism

    "The history generated by those presuppositions—and, tautologically, the presuppositions that continue to be sustained through that history—is enmeshed with the cultural and political mobilization of Chican@s as an oppositional group ..."

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"The history generated by those presuppositions—and, tautologically, the presuppositions that continue to be sustained through that history—is enmeshed with the cultural and political mobilization of Chican@s as an oppositional group ..."

Etymology

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

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