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Brownness is more than our skin color or language or where we grew up; it's also about the common threads that connect us all. I'm excited to see Christopher's impact continue to grow as one of the key voices of his generation.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Its pages are full of honest explorations of love, sex, fake-it-till-you-make-it ambition, bad Spanish, color, code-switching, white-washing, scandal, Hollywood, and more. This memoir navigates these necessary and often revealing topics through fourteen chapters, each a distinct moment where Rivas explores his Brownness and how to own it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown Enough\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a moment that forever changed Christopher Rivas's life, the night Ta-Nehisi Coates shared, in an intimate gathering in downtown L.A., the Brown man's role in the race conversation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"All I hear is black and white. As a Brown man, a Latin man, where does that leave me?\" Coates took a short breath and responded, \"Not in it.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Like a reprimanded child, Rivas took his seat and remained silent for much of the event. But the effects didn't end there. This conversation pushed Rivas to contemplate and rethink how whiteness and Blackness had impacted his sense of self and worth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Why is Brown not in it?\" became the unspoken question for the rest of his life and a thread moving through this collection. Eventually, in every conversation, during every date, at every job, Rivas began to ask, \"What are the consequences of not being in the conversation?\" \"What does it take to be in it?\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown Enough\u003c\/i\u003e is the quest to find an answer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Brown Enough is a must-read for anyone who wants a more expansive and inclusive view of race in America. Rivas fiercely asks us to consider tough questions and offers candid and provocative answers. He lays bare his soul on the pages.\" \u003c\/i\u003e--\u003ci\u003e Julissa Arce, author of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChristopher Rivas\u003c\/b\u003e is an actor, author, podcaster, and storyteller best known for his on-screen work on the Fox series, CALL ME KAT. In addition, he hosts two podcasts on SiriusXM's Stitcher: Rubirosa, a limited series about the life of Porfirio Rubirosa, and a weekly show, Brown Enough. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Expressive Arts for Global Health \u0026amp; Peace Building from The European Graduate School and a Rothschild Social Impact fellow. 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