What ARE you?? I get this question not infrequently. Typically it’s preceded by someone hearing me speak in Spanish. Occasionally it’s because, due to a lot of different influences over the years, my accent is hard to pinpoint. Most of the time, though, it’s prompted by the person’s perception that, while my Spanish sounds “authentic” enough, I don’t “look like” “someone who speaks Spanish.” Because we in the U.S. are not particularly adept at talking about heritage, ethnicit