![]() ![]() His confusion about his own racial identity later became the wellspring from which he pursued an understanding of his mother's history, and learned, as an adult, that she was born the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a crippled mother in Suffolk, Virginia. McBride grew up in the Red Hook housing projects of Brooklyn confused by his mother's "whiteness". ![]() Her basic household tenets rested on the importance of academic success and the church, and many of her children moved on to earn graduate and professional degrees. His mother witnessed the premature death of her first husband, a reverend, and through sheer force of will saw each of her children graduate from college. The Color of Water (1997) is the bestselling memoir of James McBride, a biracial journalist, jazz saxophonist, and composer whose Jewish mother gave birth to twelve children, all of whom she raised in a housing project in Brooklyn. ![]()
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