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Chargement... Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Race, Familia, and Making It in Americapar Christopher Rivas
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Biography & Autobiography.
Sociology.
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HTML:"A cogent memoir and commentary that challenges the American racial binary."- Kirkus Reviews Brown Enough, Christopher Rivas's first book, is a literary memoir about what it truly means to be Brown in America. Holding the weight of being a Latino man, Christopher wonders where he falls on the color line, widened through his experience as an ethnically ambiguous actor of color in Hollywood and the man!) dangers and pitfalls that come from owning one's Brownness. Told through the lens of his personal stories and in a unique and literal voice, Christopher examines the deep history of his Dominican and Colombian heritage. Brown Enough is a breakthrough literary masterpiece that begs the question of what it means to be Brown in 21st century America, caught between cultures, and yet knowing that color lines are always starker than they app Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I Picked Up This Book Because: The title.
Media Type: Audiobook
Source: Review copy provided by Netgalley
Dates Read: 9/12/22 - 9/15/22
Stars: 4.5 Stars
Narrator(s): Christopher Rivas
The Story:
I had no idea who Christopher Rivas was when I requested this ARC.(Turns out I did but I didn’t know I did.) He opened up a perspective for me that I’ve never considered. In the exploding conversations of black and white where do brown people stand? Of course he can not speak for all of the races in between but he did an excellent job of sharing his perspective and the problems concerning people who look like him. Every race has their ideal physical type and people, be they family, friends or professionals in your life, has an opinion on what it is and how you should achieve it. It's rather depressing but Rivas gives us these hard truths with enough charm to make them swallowable.
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