The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by:
James McBride (author)
As a young black boy in Brooklyn, James McBride wondered why his mother looked different. When he asked her if she was white or black, she would answer, "I'm light-skinned." Finally, when he had become an adult, she told him her story. She was a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland, raised in the...
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As a young black boy in Brooklyn, James McBride wondered why his mother looked different. When he asked her if she was white or black, she would answer, "I'm light-skinned." Finally, when he had become an adult, she told him her story. She was a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland, raised in the American South. McBride's tribute, now published in a 10th anniversary edition, has become a classic in healthy race relations, a topic we are all apparently still learning.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781573220224 (1573220221)
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Book Club,
African American,
Biography Memoir,
Race
I don't remember what made me want to listen to this book, but I am glad I did. I'm not even sure I knew what it was about before I pressed the "Play" button.It's about the son of a black, Christian man and a white, Jewish woman. It's also about identity, finding one's past, and family.Much of it ta...
Very warm and loving portrait of a biracial mother/son relationship.
Summer reading for Race & Gender class ... I thought it was pretty good! The author and his mother both had very interesting life stories. :] It was sad, though – one of those books that reminds you how cruel and judgmental people can be. But it had its happy/funny moments too. :)
"What color is God?" asks the young James of his mother, confused by all the white images of Jesus that surround him and his black father and mother. "God's not black. He's not white. . . . God is the color of water," is the wonderful response of Rachel, an astonishingly gifted and driven woma...
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