Christopher Rivas On Being Ethnically Ambiguous Growing up ambiguously brown in a world that only sees in black and white… As someone who is of mixed race, I cannot even begin to describe the many encounters I’ve had—some hilarious, some disrespectful, all memorable—with family, friends, and strangers that have all centered around my unidentifiable skin color. Being Dminican-Colombian means people almost always have no idea what ethnicity I am, and this creates the utmost and urgent need to categorize my racial and ethnic self. ‘Ethnically Ambiguous’ has been the hot catch-phrase in commercial and print castings for the past several years. Fancy words, but all they mean is off-white skin color, …
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