6/23/2023 0 Comments Mcbride james the color of water![]() McBride first wrote about his mother in an essay for the Boston Globe enthusiastic responses from readers encouraged him to expand the work into a book. All twelve of her children went on to attend college, and most of them also completed graduate studies. After her first husband died, Ruth McBride went on to marry again and with her second husband, also a black man, have four more children. The story of life lived on both sides of the color line, McBride’s memoir gives equal space to the voice of his white mother (who was disowned by her Orthodox Jewish family for marrying a black man) and his own questions about navigating black identity as a mixed-race person.īorn in 1957, McBride was the youngest of eight children born to Ruth and Andrew McBride, a deeply religious couple who had founded a black church in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1997 for his memoir, The Color of Water, James McBride is a jazz musician as well as a writer, and the jazz tradition of complementary solos can be seen in his written work. ![]()
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