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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

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First published: 1996
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother free PDF download from here and you can also read this book online from here. “James McBride’s ‘The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother’ is a powerful memoir that delves into the complexities of race and identity. Published in 1995, the book alternates between McBride’s recollections of his childhood and the firsthand experiences of his mother, Ruth.

Ruth, a Caucasian woman, was married to Andrew Dennis McBride, an African American man. The narrative is a heartfelt homage to Ruth, affectionately referred to as Mommy or Ma by McBride. The book offers an insightful exploration of racial identity and a poignant tribute from a son to his mother.”

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James McBride

McBride was a working jazz saxophonist and a newspaper reporter before The Color of Water, a memoir about his mother, a white Jewish woman from the American South who married two Black men, raised twelve children in Brooklyn housing projects, sent all of them to university, and refused for years to say where she came from.