Chican@

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

Chican@ (plural Chican@s)

  1. (neologism) A Chicano or Chicana.
    • 2010, Sandra K. Soto, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:
      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 ...
    • 2011, Nephtalí De León, Chican@s: Our Background and Our Pride, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 111:
      One of the most beautiful things about Chican@s is that for those who become aware, there is truly no generation gap. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters simply enjoy working together for the betterment of La Raza.

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