num_pages: 296
description: Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother.
language: English
title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
titlecomplete: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
genres: Biography, Book Club, Memoir, Nonfiction, School, Audiobook, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Race, African American
ratings_count: 119738
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: G K Hall & Co