Another example from the literature How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda, that I would like to point out is how when Raquel was growing up she was constantly trying to fit in with her peers as well as her father. She was torn between doing what she wanted to do with other kids and what her father wanted her to do. Eduardo would always make snide comments like, “she’s going to be on welfare with a bunch of kids, like her lousy moth’a” or “what are you doing with this lousy Dominican” (Cepeda, Raquel, p.88), whenever Raquel would interact with someone other than who he wanted her to interact with. It was really easy for Raquel to interact with people other than the kids at the tennis academy because they, “only talk about money and being something
