Brown enough : true stories about love, violence, the student loan crisis, Hollywood, race, familia, and making it in America /
Rivas, Christopher,
Brown enough : true stories about love, violence, the student loan crisis, Hollywood, race, familia, and making it in America / Christopher Rivas. - First edition. - xiv, 220 pages ; 22 cm
An invitation -- Not in it -- 102-17 64th Road -- Mejorando la raza--What's in my blood? -- Words are spells in your mouth -- The water we swim in -- Please don't hate me for dating white women -- The cost of pretending -- Always lie when someone asks if you meditate -- The Ameri-con dream -- Sacrifice my identity. I'll do it. -- I will do anything to survive. -- The real James Bond ... was Dominican! -- Home -- The gospel of endless growth -- Alchemy of brownness -- A final note.
"At a time when disinformation, hate crimes, inequality, racial injustice, and white supremacy are on the rise, Brown Enough, part memoir and part social commentary, emerges, asking readers to proudly put their bodies, their identities, into the conversations of race. Brown Enough is a roller coaster of finding one's true self while simultaneously having a racial awakening amidst the struggle to be "perfectly" Latinx, woke, and as Brown as possible to make it in today's America"--
9781955905046 1955905045
Rivas, Christopher.
Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.
Hispanic American actors--Biography.
United States--Race relations.
Biographies.
Brown enough : true stories about love, violence, the student loan crisis, Hollywood, race, familia, and making it in America / Christopher Rivas. - First edition. - xiv, 220 pages ; 22 cm
An invitation -- Not in it -- 102-17 64th Road -- Mejorando la raza--What's in my blood? -- Words are spells in your mouth -- The water we swim in -- Please don't hate me for dating white women -- The cost of pretending -- Always lie when someone asks if you meditate -- The Ameri-con dream -- Sacrifice my identity. I'll do it. -- I will do anything to survive. -- The real James Bond ... was Dominican! -- Home -- The gospel of endless growth -- Alchemy of brownness -- A final note.
"At a time when disinformation, hate crimes, inequality, racial injustice, and white supremacy are on the rise, Brown Enough, part memoir and part social commentary, emerges, asking readers to proudly put their bodies, their identities, into the conversations of race. Brown Enough is a roller coaster of finding one's true self while simultaneously having a racial awakening amidst the struggle to be "perfectly" Latinx, woke, and as Brown as possible to make it in today's America"--
9781955905046 1955905045
Rivas, Christopher.
Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.
Hispanic American actors--Biography.
United States--Race relations.
Biographies.