I identify as a Latina.

Sorry, that's always really a hard question for me.

Were you defining races?

Do we have that conversation about what race is?

Yes, and like next, that's easy because I know my parents are both from Costa Rica, but

for race, I don't know.

I self-identify as a Latino end of the black race.

Looking at me, I can't put white, I can't put black.

I put others sometimes.

I like to fill out others, and I like to just write in Latina.

I don't know where my African is.

I'll never know because that information was taken from me.

So this year, I guess I realized that I'm indigenous.

Mexican-American India, we're indigenous.

I look white, that's how I came out.

However, I was raised in a Dominican household.

It just doesn't make sense.

I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.

I'm Jean Zembe, and this is Coat Switch.

From NPR.

All right, so Latinos are the second largest demographic in the US.

That's like a thing we say all the time on this show.

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