Bibliography for The Color of Water by James McBride

Prepared by Mary E. Thorstensen, Librarian for Cumberland County College
"One Book, One College" program.

The following resources can be found at the library.

The Book: (On reserve: ask at circulation desk)

McBride, James.The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to
  His White Mother. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.

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Other books by James McBride:

McBride, James. Miracle at St. Anna. New York:
      Riverhead Books,2002.

Supporting Materials:
Biographical Information on McBride
Educational Perspectives on the Book
Historical Perspectives on the Book
Literary/Artistic Perspectives on the Book
Other Biographies that may be of Interest
Psychological Perspectives on the Book
Religious Perspectives on the Book
Reviews of The Color of Water
Sociological Perspectives on the Book

 
 

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Biographical Information:

"James C. McBride." Contemporary Black Biography. Volume 35. Detroit: Gale 2003.
      REF E 185.96 C66 V.35 (In Reference Room.)

"James C. McBride." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 29 July 2004.
      PEN# 0000121823. (On Reserve: Ask at Circulation Desk).
 
 

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Educational Perspectives:

Adams, Maurianne, and John Bracey. “Strangers and Neighbors: Teaching and Writing about
      Blacks and Jews." Chronicle of Higher Education 47.10 (2000): B7+. Ebsco Academic Search
      Premier. Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 3726336.

Back, Adina. “Blacks, Jews and the Struggle to Integrate Brooklyn’s Junior High School 258:
      A Cold War Story.” Journal of American Ethnic History 20.2 (2001): 38+.
      Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004.
      Accession #: 4298708.

Connolly, Paul. Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children [electronic resource]:
  Social Relations in a Multi-Ethnic, Inner-City Primary School. New York:
      Routledge, 2002.  Taylor & Francis e-library, 2002. 3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Lewis, Amanda E. Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities.
      New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.  LC 212.2 L49 2003

Loury, Linda D. “Does Church Attendance Really Increase Schooling?” Journal for the
      Scientific Study of Religion 43.1 (2004): 119+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #:12205951.

Thornton, Clarence H. “Value Orientations: a Study of Black College Students.” College
      Student Journal 38.1 (2004): 103+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland
      County College. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 12844799.

Wardle, Francis. “Multiracial and Multiethnic Students : How They Must Belong.”
      Multicultural Perspectives 2.4 (2000): 11+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 4901004.

Wardle, Francis. “Supporting Biracial Children in the School Setting.” Education &
      Treatment of Children 15.2 (1992): 163+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 9608010110.
 
 

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Historical Perspectives:

Carson, Clayborne. Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and
  Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York:
      Penguin Books, 1991.  E 185.615 E95 1991

Cole, Johnnetta B. Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African
  American Communities. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.  E 185.86 C58154 2003

Cowan, Neil. Our Parents’ Lives: the Americanization of Eastern European Jews.
      New York: Basic Books, 1989.  E 184 J5 C79 1989

Eyes on the Prize. Dir. Orlando Bagwell. PBS, 1992.  VIDEOTAPE E 185.61 E92

Hyman, Paula. Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
      New York: Routledge, 1998.  REF DS 115.2 J49 1997

Kohn, Howard. We had a Dream: A Tale of the Struggles for Integration in America.
      New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.  F 187 P9 K64 1998

Levine, Daniel. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement. New Brunswick: Rutgers
      University Press, 2000.  E 185.97 R93 L49 2000

Perry, Marvin. Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. New York:
      Palgrave, 2002.  DS 145 P415 2002

Philipson, Robert. The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America.
      Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000.  D 1056.2 B55 P45 2000

Pinn, Anthony. The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Maryknoll:
      Orbis Books, 2002.  BR 563 N4 P49 2002

Raboteau, Albert J. A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious
  History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995  BR 563 N4 R24 1995

Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long? : African-American Women in the Struggle
  for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.  E 185.61 R685 1997

Salem Press. The Civil Rights Movement [electronic resource]. Pasadena: Salem Press,
      2000.  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Susser, Ida. Cultural Diversity in the United States: a Critical Reader. Malden: Blackwell,
      2001.  E 184 A1 C847 2001

Trotman, C. James. Multiculturalism [electronic resource]: Roots and Realities.
      Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com
 
 

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Literary / Artistic Perspectives:

Brennan, Jonathan. Mixed Race Literature. Palo Alto: Stanford University
      Press, 2002.  PS 153 M56 M59 2002

Daly, Brenda O. Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities. Knoxville:
      University of Tennessee Press, 1991.  PN 56.5 M67 N37 1991

Friedman, Lester D. Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema. Urbana:
      University of Illinois Press, 1991.  PN 1995.9 M56 U57 1991

Furman, Andrew. “Revisiting Literary Blacks and Jews.” Midwest Quarterly 44.2 (2003):
      131+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland County College Library.
      15 July 2004. Accession #: 8947979.

Holloway, Karla F.C. New Dimensions of Spirituality: a Biracial and Bicultural Reading
  of the Novels of Toni Morrison. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.  PS 3563 O8749 Z69 1987

Holloway, Karla. Codes of Conduct [computer file]: Race, Ethics, & the Color of Our
  Character. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Jazz. Dir. Ken Burns. PBS, 2000. 

Kinney, Arthur F. Go Down, Moses: the Miscegenation of Time. Detroit: Twayne
      Publishers, 1996.  PS 3511 A86 G6349 1996

Kolmerten, Carol A. Unflinching Gaze [computer file]: Morrison and Faulkner Re-envisioned.
      Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1997. 3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Peretti, Burton W. The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America.
      Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.  ML 3508 P45 1992

Trotman, C. James. Multiculturalism [electronic resource]: Roots and Realities.
      Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns. Jazz: A History of America’s Music.
      New York: Alfred Knopf, 2000.  ML 3508 W37 2000
 
 

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Other Biographies of Interest:

Azoulay, Katya Gibel. Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It’s not the Color of Your Skin,
  but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity. Durham: Duke
      University Press, 1997. 

Green, Ely. Ely: Too Black, Too White. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
      Press, 1970.  E 185.97 G795 A3 1970

Jeffries, Dexter. Triple Exposure: Black, Jewish and Red in the 1950’s. New York:
      Kensington, 2003.  E 185.97 J44 A3 2003

Twotrees, Kaylynn. Somebody always singing you [computer file]. Jackson: University of
      Mississippi Press, 1997.   3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Walker, Rebecca. Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. New York:
      Riverhead, 2002.  E 184 A1 W214 2001
 
 

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Psychological Perspectives:

Bassin, Donna. Representations of Motherhood. New Haven: Yale University Press,
      1994.  HQ 759 R48 1994

Daly, Brenda O. Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities. Knoxville:
      University of Tennessee Press, 1991.  PN 56.5 M67 N37 1991

Jenkins, Philip. Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis. New York:
      Oxford University Press, 1996.  BX 1912.9 J46 1996

Kaplan, Sandra J. Family Violence: a Clinical and Legal Guide. Washington, DC:
      American Psychiatric Press, 1996.  RC 569.5 F3 F35 1995 

Kinnear, Karen L. Childhood Sexual Abuse [computer file] : a Reference Handbook.
      Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1995.  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Pryor, Douglas. Unspeakable Acts : Why Men Sexually Abuse Children. New York:
      New York University Press, 1996.  HV 6570.2 P77 1996

Rockquemore, Kerry Ann, and Tracey A. Laszloffy. “Multiple Realities: A Relational
Narrative Approach in Therapy with Black-White Mixed-Race Clients.” Family
Relations 52.2 (2003): 119+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland
County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 9529609.
 
 

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Religious Perspectives:

Abramson, Glenda. Modern Jewish Mythologies. Detroit: Hebrew Union College Press,
      2000.  DS 113 M58 2000

Azoulay, Katya Gibel. “Jewishness After Mount Sinai: Jews, Blacks and the Multi Racial
      Category.” Identities 8.2 (2001) 211+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 6371267.

Connolly, Paul. Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children [electronic resource]:
  Social Relations in a Multi-Ethnic, Inner-City Primary School. New York:
      Routledge, 2002.  Taylor & Francis e-library, 2002. 3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Hyman, Paula. Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
      New York: Routledge, 1998.  REF DS 115.2 J49 1997

Loury, Linda D. “Does Church Attendance Really Increase Schooling?” Journal for the
      Scientific Study of Religion 43.1 (2004): 119+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #:12205951.

McDannell, Colleen. Religions of the United States in Practice. Princeton:
      Princeton University Press, 2001.  BL 2525 R4688 2001

Neusner, Jacob. Jewish and Christian Doctrines [electronic resource]: The Classics
   Compared. New York: Routledge, 2002.  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Perry, Marvin. Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. New York:
      Palgrave, 2002.  DS 145 P415 2002

Pinn, Anthony. The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Maryknoll:
      Orbis Books, 2002.  BR 563 N4 P49 2002

Raboteau, Albert J. A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious
  History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995  BR 563 N4 R24 1995

Ross, Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights.
      Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.  BR 563 N4 R67 2003

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Religion and Sexism; Images of Woman in the Jewish and
  Christian Traditions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.  BV 639 W7 R8

Sung Joon Jang, and Byron R. Johnson. “Explaining Religious Effects on Distress
      Among African Americans.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43.2
      (2004): 239+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland County College.
      15 July 2004. Accession #: 13044078.

Thornton, Clarence H. “Value Orientations: a Study of Black College Students.” College
      Student Journal 38.1 (2004): 103+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland
      County College. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 12844799.

Washington, Harold. “Abraham’s Family as a Prototype for Interfaith Dialogue: Judaism,
      Christianity, and Islam.”Religious Education 90.2 (1995): 286+. Ebsco Academic
      Search Premier. Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #:
      9510272670.

Wuthnow, Robert. The Quiet Hand of God [electronic resource]: Faith-Based Activism
  and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism. Berkeley: University of California
      Press, 2002.  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com
 
 

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Reviews: (On reserve: ask at circulation desk)

Geiger, H. Jack. “Rachel and Her Children.” New York Times 31 March 1996, late
      ed., sec.7: 16.LexisNexis Academic. Cumberland County College Library. 13 July 2004.

Lamb, Gregory M. “Trying to Bridge the Racial Divide in America.” Christian Science Monitor
      88 14 February 1996: 15.Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland County College Library.
      13 July 2004. Accession #: 9607120968.

Pearson, Hugh. “Bookshelf: At the Center of America’s Racial Dilemma.” Wall Street Journal
      9 February 1996, Eastern ed.: A12. ABI Inform - Proquest Newspapers. Cumberland County
      College Library. 13 July 2004. Document ID#: 9253691

Rubin, Daniel. “Philadelphia picks ‘Color of Water’ to Read.” Philadelphia Inquirer
      12 January 2004, City-D ed.: B1. www.newslibrary.com 14 March 2004.

Budhos, Marina. “Black Man, Jewish Soul.” Nation 262 (1996): 32-35.Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 13 July 2004. Accession #: 9604167794.
 
 

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Sociological Perspectives:

Azoulay, Katya Gibel. “Jewishness After Mount Sinai: Jews, Blacks and the Multi Racial
      Category.” Identities 8.2 (2001) 211+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 6371267.

Back, Adina. “Blacks, Jews and the Struggle to Integrate Brooklyn’s Junior High School 258:
      A Cold War Story.” Journal of American Ethnic History 20.2 (2001): 38+.
      Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004.
      Accession #: 4298708.

Baldwin, James. Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism. New York: Baron, 1969.  E 185.615 B54

Cole, Johnnetta B. Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African
  American Communities. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.  E 185.86 C58154 2003

Connolly, Paul. Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children [electronic resource]:
  Social Relations in a Multi-Ethnic, Inner-City Primary School. New York:
      Routledge, 2002.  Taylor & Francis e-library, 2002. 3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

DeGenova, Mary. Families in Cultural Context: Strengths and Challenges in Diversity.
      Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1997.  E 184 A1 F32 1997

Dent, Gina. Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992.  E 185.86 B532 1992

Douglas, David. Marriage Beyond Black and White: An Interracial Family Portrait.
      Wilmette: Bahai Publishing, 2003.  HQ 1031 D68 2002

Gordon, Jacob U. The Black Male in White America. Hauppauge: Nova Science
      Publishers, 2002.  E 185.86 B52567 2002

Holloway, Karla. Codes of Conduct [computer file]: Race, Ethics, & the Color of Our
  Character. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Kohn, Howard. We had a Dream: A Tale of the Struggles for Integration in America.
      New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.  F 187 P9 K64 1998

Korgen, Kathleen Odell. From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among
  Americans. Westport: Praeger, 1998. 

Kottak, Conrad Phillip. On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North
  American Mainstream. Columbus: McGraw-Hill College, 1999.  GN 550 K67 1999

Loury, Glenn C. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Cambridge: Harvard University
      Press, 2002.  E 185.615 L675 2002

McDermott, Monica. “Trends in the Race and Ethnicity of Eminent Americans.”
      Sociological Forum 17.1 (2002): 137+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier.
      Cumberland County College Library. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 11302538.

Parrillo, Vincent. Diversity in America. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, 1996.  E 184 A1 P329 1996

Philipson, Robert. The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America.
      Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000.  D 1056.2 B55 P45 2000

Robnett, Belinda. How Long? How Long? : African-American Women in the Struggle
  for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.  E 185.61 R685 1997

Romano, Christine. Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America.
      Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.  HQ 1031 R65 2003

Sandor, Gabrielle. “The ‘Other’ Americans.” American Demographics June (1994):
      36-42. Sirs Knowledge Source. Cumberland County College Library. 10 July 2004. 

Susser, Ida. Cultural Diversity in the United States: a Critical Reader. Malden: Blackwell,
      2001.  E 184 A1 C847 2001

Szumski, Bonnie. Interracial America: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven
      Press, 1996.  E 184 A1 I6 1996

Thornton, Clarence H. “Value Orientations: a Study of Black College Students.” College
      Student Journal 38.1 (2004): 103+. Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Cumberland
      County College. 15 July 2004. Accession #: 12844799.

Trotman, C. James. Multiculturalism [electronic resource]: Roots and Realities.
      Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.  3 March 2004. www.netlibrary.com

Washington, Joseph R. Jews in Black Perspectives: A Dialogue. Rutherford: Fairleigh
      Dickinson University Press, 1984.  E 185.61 J48 1984

Winters, Paul A. Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 1996.  E 184 A1 R316 1996
 
 

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