The Color of Water

A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Author: James McBride
ISBN: 9781594481925

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. The incredible modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and launched James McBride's literary career. Over two years on The New York Times bestseller list Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black 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 debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes ful

Publisher: Penguin
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Family & Relationships / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Black Resource Center (Location: 1A)