In The Color of Water, by James McBride, James is always trying to learn more and more about his mother. Unsuccessful most of the time in his childhood. He wants to understand the present and future by understanding the past.
Both James and Ruth are subject to varying degrees of prejudice in their lives. Ruth endured exclusion and ridicule as a Jew living in the South, and later as a white woman living in black neighborhoods during the black power movement. Growing up, James witnessed the unjust stereotyping and harsh treatment of black people in his family and his neighborhood. Through her teaching Ruth was able to teach racial understand rather
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