description: 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.
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: Audiobook, Book Club, Biography, School, Race, African American, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 119721
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Sterling Entertainment Group