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The Color Of Water - A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother
by: James Mcbride

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Binding: Paperback
Label: Riverhead Books
Manufacturer: Riverhead Books
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Sales Rank: 60389
Studio: Riverhead Books

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- A TRIBUTE TO MOM...
This book is, indeed, a tribute to the author's mother. In it, the author, a man whose mother was white and his father black, tells two stories: that of his mother and his own. Tautly written in spare, clear prose, it is a wonderful story of a bi-racial family who succeeded and achieved the American dream, despite the societal obstacles placed in its way.

The author's mother was a Polish Orthodox Jew who migrated to America at the age of two with her family during the early nineteen twenties. They ultimately settled down in Virginia, where she led an isolated and lonely life; shunned by whites because she was Jewish and shunned by blacks because she was white. She was raised in a predominantly black neighborhood, where her father, a despicable and harsh man who brutalized his handicapped wife, ran a local grocery store, where he priced gouged his black clientele.

She left home and moved ... Read More

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