![]() ![]() ![]() This book also takes place against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, which gained traction in the 1950s and led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and the legalization of interracial marriage in 1967. ![]() The Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to Northern cities, which lasted from the 1910s to the 1970s, helps explain the demographics of the Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods in which James McBride grows up, as does “white flight,” or the mass exodus of wealthier white people from cities in the 1960s and 70s. Ruth McBride-Jordan’s childhood is deeply influenced by the scarcity of the Great Depression, as well as pervasive anti-Jewish sentiments, which were most prevalent in Germany in the early to mid 20th century, but existed in America as well. James persuades his mother to reveal her early identity as. ![]() The book spans almost seventy years, beginning in the 1920s when McBride’s mother’s family immigrated to the United States, part of a larger pattern of Jewish and Eastern European migration that began in the late 1800s and continued until 1924, when the United States instituted harsh immigration quotas. In The Color of Water, James McBride tells the life stories of himself and his mother, Ruth McBride Jordan, in alternating chapters. The Color of Water is a nonfiction autobiography published in 1996 by the American author and musician James McBride.Subtitled A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother, The Color of Water chronicles the author’s challenges growing up in the 1960s and 70s as a mixed-race child of a White Jewish mother. ![]()
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