Identity Crises
![Esperanza lying on a bed, playing guitar](https://amherstglobaleducationblog.sites.amherst.edu/files/2018/07/e1.jpg)
My brown is not Brazilian brown. In fact, my brown is not even brown here. I am considered white with a foreign tan, and every day that tan is fading as fall slips into winter. I realized I was white for the first time while eating dinner with a local friend, when she asked me if I identified as ‘Latina’.
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