Why Latinx?

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Editorial| April 01 2021 Why Latinx? Charlene Villaseñor Black, Charlene Villaseñor Black Charlene Villaseñor Black is professor of art history and Chicana/o studies at University of California, Los Angeles. She authored Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire (Princeton University Press, 2006), edited Tradition and Transformation: Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s (University of Washington Press, 2015), and coedited Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention (University of California Press, 2019), Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader (UCLA, 2019), The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2020) and Autobiography without Apology: The Personal Essay in Latino Studies (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2020). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Emily A. Engel Emily A. Engel Emily Engel is an independent scholar based in Southern California. Engel authored Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections (University of Texas Press, 2020), edited A Companion to Early Modern Lima (Brill, 2019) and coedited Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru: New Questions and Approaches (Getty Publications, 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2021) 3 (2): 5–10. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2021.3.2.5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Charlene Villaseñor Black, Emily A. Engel; Why Latinx?. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 April 2021; 3 (2): 5–10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2021.3.2.5 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search In this editorial commentary, we consider the use of Latinx in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture and argue for its relevance and importance, while at the same time recognizing the term’s limitations, variability, and potential for change. In our very first issue of LALVC, we upheld the use of x instead of o or a/o or @ in our title as a proclamation of inclusiveness. How has our thinking about the x evolved since then? This short reflection surveys and ponders existing commentary on the topic, as we encourage additional discussion and debate. Because of our role as journal editors and due to our training in art history, we’re particularly interested in the use of the term in the realms of scholarly publishing and visual culture studies. Latinx is an inclusive, transformational term that semantically opens creative spaces for the decolonial manipulation of materials, forms, and ideas by... You do not currently have access to this content.