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2024
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"Appropriate for preschool picture-book enthusiasts, this is also the sort of resource every middle- and high-school counselor should display prominently in their office." — American Library Association’s BooklistDive into the journey of life with You're A Good Swimmer, a captivating picture book that answers the age-old question: Where do babies come from?Readers will quickly discover it's not just about the birds and the bees; i...
2022
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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 to...
Brown Enough
True Stories About Love, Violence, Race, Familia and Making It in America
- Narrated by
- Christopher Rivas
Unabridged
7 hours 5 min
2022
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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...
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