“I’m a Dominiyorkian of mixed decent.” |
“I’m a Dominiyorkian of mixed decent. If you read my book [Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina] you will find that I’m mixed and that I am just one example of the many of how the new world came to be. I’m the genetic evidence that the new world happened. So can’t just turn my back on one side of my culture and just call myself one thing. I feel like I’d be selling out the parts of who I am for better or for worse. Because there are things that we have in our blood that we don’t want to have; that we don’t want to admit. That we don’t want to reconcile with. For example, growing up I always thought as the European man as the aggressor, but when you have European blood running down your veins too, you have to come to terms with that.” —Raquel Cepeda
Richy Rosario, “Interview: Raquel Cepeda On Identity, Race & Hip-Hop,” Vibe, March 16, 2016. http://www.vibe.com/2016/03/interview-raquel-cepeda-on-identity-race-hip-hop/.
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