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A review by mariaslibrary
Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America by Christopher Rivas
3.75
I struggled getting through this book in the beginning. I was only two or three chapters in and set it down for about a year before I came back to it. Coincidentally right after I had traveled to the Dominican Republic for the first time. I found this context help me understand the author's perspective better, helped it ring more true.
I found the author's voice engaging and charismatic, but a lot of what he wrote sounded too familiar. I've read a number of nonfiction books from the latinx perspective around racism and anti-blackness and so a lot of this felt like it was giving an introductory coverage to topics I was more used to reading about in more depth. But I think that would make this a particularly great read for folks who Earnest exposed to this perspective.
There were several chapters or essays where I really did hear a unique perspective in the ways that his specific cultural background differs from other Latinx cultures I'm me familiar with.
Overall I would definitely recommend this book. For anyone, but most enthusiastically for people who are less familiar with the subject matter. I'm glad I came back to it and gave it a second chance.
I found the author's voice engaging and charismatic, but a lot of what he wrote sounded too familiar. I've read a number of nonfiction books from the latinx perspective around racism and anti-blackness and so a lot of this felt like it was giving an introductory coverage to topics I was more used to reading about in more depth. But I think that would make this a particularly great read for folks who Earnest exposed to this perspective.
There were several chapters or essays where I really did hear a unique perspective in the ways that his specific cultural background differs from other Latinx cultures I'm me familiar with.
Overall I would definitely recommend this book. For anyone, but most enthusiastically for people who are less familiar with the subject matter. I'm glad I came back to it and gave it a second chance.