@article{313065,
      note = {Includes excerpt from the author's novel Miracle at St.  Anna (p. 301-314).},
      author = {McBride, James,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/313065},
      title = {The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white  mother /},
      publisher = {Riverhead Books,},
      abstract = {Who is Ruth McBridge Jordan?  A sel-declared  "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet  steadfast in her love for her twelve children.  James  McBridge, journalist, musician and son, explores his  mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage,  in a poignant and powerful memoir.},
      recid = {313065},
      pages = {xvii, 314 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2003},
}