TY  - BOOK
AU  - McBride,James
TI  - The color of water: a black man's tribute to his white mother 
SN  - 0329689789
AV  - F130.N4 M38 2006
U1  - 974.7/1/00496/073/0092B 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - McBride-Jordan, Ruth,
KW  - McBride, James,
KW  - Mothers
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Mulattoes
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Whites
KW  - African Americans
KW  - sears
N1  - First published: 1996; Library Journal Starred; Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.); Wilson's Public Library; Young Adult; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - James McBride shares the story of his mother's life and complicated racial identity which he only learned after becoming an adult. He tells of her infancy in Poland as the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, her childhood in small-town Virginia, her move to Harlem at the age of eighteen, her marriage to an African-American man, her achievements as a wife and mother to twelve children, and her refusal to ever admit she is white
ER  -