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I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

Raquel Cepeda , em Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
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