"My sense of self and my identity have been enhanced more than they’ve changed. I’m still Latina-American for the purposes of living here in the States. Sometimes I say I’m Dominican, or Dominican-American, depending on who I’m talking to; the codewords change depending on the community you’re engaging with. But for me, it was a very spiritual journey. It married the logos, the rational, the science, with the mythos, the spiritual."
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On how her definition of ethnicity and racial identity have changed over the years in “Becoming Latina: An Interview with Raquel Cepeda” in Hazlitt (2013 Jun 26)
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