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The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother James McBride
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UNY F 130 .N4 M38 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McBride, James, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McBride-Jordan, Ruth, 1921-2010.
- McBride-Jordan, Ruth.
- McBride, James, 1957-.
- McBride, James.
- Multiracial people--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- Mothers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Mothers.
- White people--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- White people.
- Multiracial people--Race identity.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 1996.
- 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 McBridge, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful memoir.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 1573220221 (alk. paper)
- 9781573220224 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 33044768
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