Racial Ambiguity And a lack of Identity

Racial Ambiguity. Interesting subject when it comes to portrayals in the media. The media allows for artistic and self expression through various ways. So after the reading and the lecture on racial ambiguity, I was left with a lingering thought; Then who are you? Stars that come off as racially ambiguous are more often put in roles that leave a question of their identity to be unanswered. This leaves the viewing audience with the conclusion that they have no identity. Your features and dialect don't pertain to one ethnicity so you can be type-cast as anyone  or rather white, or bi-racial. There's something troublesome in this. It seems these stars are without an identity or they can't choose one for fear of alienation. Even as progressive as society has been through the decades it seems as though most of the A-list stars/actors are white. Therefore that leaves some identity crisis and problems for those who are racially ambiguous in Hollywood. 

 Do the accept their whole heritage? Or do they forego it so they may obtain more roles? In a business were there's majority, being left with a the option to be this or that seems like the trump card. You can do whatever! But, who are they? Where do they lie? When the camera is off, when they are behind closed doors, who are they?  Falling to one side or another you're forsaking some experiences, and in the end our experiences define our identity. To take a role or to be seen in the spotlight as racially ambiguous is task to maintain all present identities. Actors who are bi-racial typically lose apart of themselves in the spotlight. "Latina/o representation can in fact be in danger of being submerged and homogenized in star promotion that whitens and denies Latina/o, African, and indigenous ancestry and appearance while exalting the multiethnic,"(Beltran, 170). Doesn't seem like there's an upside, identity is lost and experience is meaningless.