Then Ruth, her maternal job done, earns her own degree in social work.Īlthough McBride writes that his mother had “little time for games, and even less time for identity crises,” my students – most of them in their first year of college – are at a perfect age for questioning who they are. With very little money but an unusual amount of “chutzpah” (nerve), Ruth gets her children into the best schools and sees them all graduate from college. She then marries another African American man and has four more children before he dies. When her husband dies she is pregnant with her eighth child (James). The Color of Water tells the story of Ruth, born an Orthodox Jew, who leaves her family to marry an African American man and is, according to Orthodox Jewish tradition, then considered to be dead. In the past eight years I have introduced McBride and his mother to more than 135 students.
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