In recent years, widely circulating scholarly and broader public discourses have suggested the emergence of a "racial reckoning” in the United States and across global contexts. Such discourses often invoke communicative metaphors including racial conversation, literacy, translation, and accountability. This presentation examines the role of language ideologies in structuring debates surrounding Latinx racial accountability. It focuses on how Latinx, a category often stereotypically associated with US racial stigmatization, comes to be redefined in relation to anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, and tracks fraught ways in which Latinxs articulate racial accountability across social, geopolitical, and historical contexts.

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