In 2009, when journalist and documentary filmmaker Raquel Cepeda
almost lost her estranged father to heart disease, she was
terrified she'd never know the truth about her ancestry. Born in
Harlem to Dominican parents, every time she looked in the mirror,
Cepeda saw a mystery--a tapestry of races and ethnicities that came
together in an ambiguous mix. With time running out, she decided to
embark on an archaeological dig of sorts by using the science of
ancestral DNA testing to excavate everything she could about her
genetic history.
The strands of her DNA would take her further, across the globe and
into history. Who were her ancestors? How did they--and she--become
Latina? Her journey, as the most unforgettable ones often do, would
lead her to places she hadn't expected to go. With vibrant lyrical
prose and a fierce honesty, Cepeda parses concepts of race,
identity, and ancestral DNA among Latinos by using her own
Dominican-American story as one example, and in the process arrives
at some sort of peace with her father.
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