Format:
Book
Author:
McBride, James, 1957- author.
Title:
The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother / James McBride.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Riverhead Books, [1996]
©1996
Description:
xiii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful memoir.
This volume is the autobiography of the author, first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother. The chapters alternate between the author's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking place before her son was born. The author depicts the conflicting emotions that he endured as he struggled to discover who he truly was, as his mother narrates the hardships that she had to overcome as a white, Jewish woman who chose to marry a black man in 1942.
Subjects:
McBride-Jordan, Ruth, 1921-2010.
McBride, James, 1957-
Racially mixed people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Mothers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Whites -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Notes:
Reading Counts RC 9-12 11.0 19.0 2399.
17804. Accelerated Reader AR 6.1 11.0 UG.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1997.
Contents:
Dead -- The bicycle -- Kosher -- Black power -- The Old Testament -- The New Testament -- Sam -- Brothers and sisters -- Shul -- School -- Boys -- Daddy -- New York -- Chicken man -- Graduation -- Driving -- Lost in Harlem -- Lost in Delaware -- The promise -- Old man Shilsky -- A bird who flies -- A Jew discovered -- Dennis -- New brown -- Finding Ruthie.
LCCN:
95037243
ISBN:
9781573220224
9781417788248
1417788240
1573225789
159448192X
9781594481925
9781573225786
1573220221
Other Number:
33044768
System Availability:
3
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
3
Control Number:
44124
Call Number:
BIO McBride
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
0
# System items in:
0