Chicanx

By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]

We can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.

Chicanx and Latinx

It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.

[…] Chicanxs are aware of past struggles over space and draw on them in contemporary struggles, which focus on gentrification and its alternative, “gentefication” (the uplift of the neighborhood by locals and other Chicanxs and Latinxs)[…]