The color of water james6/5/2023 ![]() As a child with a white mother and black father, James doesn’t realize how forbidden family with mixed blood are. ![]() Growing up with no clarification or any realization on how bad discrimination are against black people, Jewish people and white people who married interracially, interracial children often get easily confused on why they are treated as they are. As a child from interracial family, James had a lot of conflicts on his identity and race due to either outside influences or influence from his family. Her son, James also had to face prejudice as well. Ruth had to face the notion of a white married to a black is disgraceful and disgusting and the discrimination against the Jews. This book shows two different perspectives of both Ruth and James. This memoir shows the trials that the author’s mother, Ruth and the author, James himself have to face including conforming to the society and discrimination because of their race and religious belief in the neighborhood. The autobiography and biography, The Color of the Water is written by James Mcbride. This is very relevant to the book, Color of the Water as it talks about a lot on discrimination in the narrator’s childhood to adulthood. He is an American civil right movement leader famous for having a voice in equal right for all people and all races. ![]() ” I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” This quote is from Martin Luther King. ![]()
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