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As a boy in Brooklyn’s Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she’d simply say ‘I’m light-skinned.’ Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. ‘You’re a human being,’ she snapped. ‘Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!’ And when James asked what colour God was, she said ‘God is the colour of water.’ As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi’s daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children through college.
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The Color of Water, James McBride
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- 1998
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- Title
- The Color of Water
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James McBride
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0747538328
- ISBN13
- 9780747538325
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies, Self-Help, Religious Topics, Religion, Family, Autobiographies & Memoirs, USA, School, Children, Faith, Partnerships, Jews, Marriage, New York, America, Race, Racism, Childhood, Mothers, Judaism, Genealogy, Siblings, African American Literature, Poverty
- First published
- 1996
- Original title
- The Color of Water
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
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- As a boy in Brooklyn’s Red Hook projects, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked about it, she’d simply say ‘I’m light-skinned.’ Later he wondered if he was different too, and asked his mother if he was black or white. ‘You’re a human being,’ she snapped. ‘Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!’ And when James asked what colour God was, she said ‘God is the colour of water.’ As an adult, McBride finally persuaded his mother to tell her story - the story of a rabbi’s daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a Baptist church, and put twelve children through college.