Latinx and Hispanic Communities and Heritage

Cultural contexts of: latino, latina, latinx, hispanic, as well as afro-latino, afro-latina, afro-latinx. Latinx is gender-neutral.
From NYU.

This 2022 ABC News Interview with Dr. Jose Medina (TikTok: @josemedina1000) article describes the pan-ethnic labels used by Hispanic, LatinX, Latine, Latino communities.

"It has always been a challenge to represent such a diverse, multi-ethnic, and multicultural group with just one term." Excellent intro. to the terms, from the Univ. of Kentucky.

"The most common way to pronounce Latinx is the same way you would Spanish-derived Latina or Latino but pronouncing the "x" as the name of the English letter X. So you get something like \luh-TEE-neks\." Per Merriam-Webster.

"In scientific discourse, the term “Hispanic” encompasses many individuals. As defined in the Federal Register, this term encompasses persons of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program maintains a rich dataset—used by many of us—that adheres to the definition found in the Federal Register.

In public discourse, the term “Hispanic” has often been criticized for its use as a blanket term that fails to capture many of the rich cultural, ethnic, and racial identities of Latin Americans who may prefer to be called by their own distinct nationality or Latino/Latina. The term Latino is geographically based and refers to persons from or with ancestry from Latin American countries. Latinx is the gender-neutral form of Latino."

For researchers; from the NIH, National Cancer Institute.

From the Washington Post, about a 1975 HEW Committee - Ad Hoc Committee on Racial and Ethnic Definitions.