Latinophobia

English

Etymology 1

Latino- + -phobia

Noun

Latinophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear or hatred of Latinos.
    • 2002, Lourdes Diaz Soto, Making a Difference in the Lives of Bilingual/bicultural Children:
      California is a state that generates a lot of tension around educational reform — a tension that can be traced largely to Latinophobia.
    • 2005, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, John M. Nieto-Phillips, Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 253:
      Whereas the glamour media adore their royal family of "Hispanic" luminaries, popular news outlets are, as ever, feverishly stoking anti-immigrant sentiment and Latinophobia.
    • 2010, Harold Joseph Recinos, Hugo Magallanes, Jesus in the Hispanic Community: Images of Christ from Theology to Popular Religion, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN:
      In response to the Latinophobia overtaking the country, Latino/a immigrants and citizens marched on April 10, 2006, in cities all around the country in defense of immigrants' rights.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Latin + -o- + -phobia

Noun

Latinophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear or hatred of Latin.
    • 1919, The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, page 227:
      [...] Latin is no longer necessary to the higher culture of our race. The best medicine for this phase of Latinophobia is a little Sunday School lesson in St. Paul, 1 Cor. XV. 35, where the great apostle and scholar illustrates the difference between [...]
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