THE COLOR OF WATER

The Color of Water

The Color of Water

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve very dark young kids, James McBride, reporter, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The hue of Water: a very dark Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The child of a black minister and a woman who would not accept she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, ...