{"quotes":[{"text":"I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["hispanic","hispanic-american","identity","latina","latina-american","latino-american","race","race-as-concept","racial-ambiguity","racism"],"id":7276,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["america","hispanic","hispanic-american","hyphenated-identities","identity","latina-american","latino-american","political","race","racial-ambiguity","racism-in-the-west"],"id":31873,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["dysfunctional-families","family","family-drama","family-relationships","family-saga","hispanic","latina-americans","latinas","latino-american","opposites","sisterhood","sisters","sisters-sibling-rivalry"],"id":372687,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"...Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["america","being-latina","being-latino","hispanic","identity","internationalism","latino-american","latino-american-identity","race","race-matters","racial-constructs","racism"],"id":455397,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"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.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["hispanic","hispanic-identity","latino-american","latino-american-identity","new-world","new-world-history","race","race-in-america","race-matters","race-relations"],"id":464967,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}