TY - BOOK AU - Rivas,Christopher TI - Brown enough: true stories about love, violence, the student loan crisis, Hollywood, race, familia, and making it in America SN - 9781955905046 PY - 2022///] CY - [New Egypt, New Jersey] PB - Row House KW - Rivas, Christopher. KW - Hispanic Americans KW - Ethnic identity KW - Hispanic American actors KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -