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Piecing together the fractured identity of US Latinos
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
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RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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.
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.”
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