The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Format:Paperback old-fashioned fun

old-fashioned fun

and his ethnicity

When her father disappears in war-torn Mississippi

500-year-old bull

missing school is not what Little Critter expected

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Format:Paperback old-fashioned funWho is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self declared "light skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride