Chican@

English

Etymology

@ 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.