IRB Intro #2 - "The Color of Water" by James McBride

My Independent Reading Book for the second Marking Period is The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride. This is an autobiography and memoir of James McBride published in 1995 which follows and retraces his mother’s footsteps. His mother, Ruth McBride Jordan, immigrated to America from Poland to be raised in the South, and when she was an adult, she moved to New York where she met and married a black man. The book tells of the many issues with race, religion, and identity she faces as she tries to raise her children, and it reveals how she still triumphed above all of these problems with love, a sheer force of will, and the insistence that only school and church really mattered. This memoir was another recommendation I received as well, and I am eager to learn what it was like growing up as an interracial family in New York.