Ebook {Epub PDF} Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda

 · Stay! Go!'—Raquel Cepeda opens her heart and shows us all a new and real path towards the futuro, the future. I believe this book is transformational and will not only change lives, but save them too." Maria Hinojosa. I applaud Raquel Cepeda’s courage and bltadwin.run description: Reprint.  · Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, writer and documentary filmmaker Raquel Cepeda is the author of the forthcoming book Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina, part memoir and part chronicle of Cepeda's year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry while looking at what it means to be Latina today/5(93).  · Timely and extraordinarily original, Raquel Cepeda’s ambitious first book draws on the science of ancestral DNA testing to examine what it means to be Black, Native, Dominican and American in an allegedly post-racial society. Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina widens the scope of Latin@ studies by forging novel venues of exploration into history and the social and biological Author: Kiley Guyton Acosta.

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In , Raquel Cepeda embarked on an exploration of her genealogy using ancestral DNA testing to uncover the truth about her family and the tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an ambiguous mix in her features, resulting in ldquo;a beautiful story of reconciliation and. cepeda Bird of Paradise - How I Became Latina Chronicles the author's quest to find out about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing findings, stories, and the controveries around Latino identity. Bird of Paradise - How I Became Latina In , when Raquel Cepeda almost lost her estranged father to heart disease, she was terrified she’d. Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina is a memoir by Raquel Cepeda. It tells the story of Raquel’s childhood in part one, describing her constant moving around from San Francisco to New York, even living in Santo Domingo for a little while. She talks about what it was like to see her mother’s abusive relationship, and eventually living under her father’s roof.