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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 , in 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 , in Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
identity america race political hispanic-american racism-in-the-west hispanic hyphenated-identities latina-american latino-american racial-ambiguity