Left of Black S2:E22 | Becoming Latina

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal talks with writer and filmmaker Raquel Cepeda about her new book, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina and growing up Hip-hop

Cepeda’s credits include Bling: A Planet Rock, a feature length documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds and the critically acclaimed anthology And It Don’t Stop: The Best Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins and Latino Book Award.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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