![]() Ruth did not want to discuss the painful details of her early family life when her abusive father, Tateh, lorded over her sweet-tempered and meek mother, Mameh ("tateh" and "mameh" are Yiddish terms of endearment for "father" and "mother," roughly equivalent to "daddy and "mommy" ). ![]() James's childhood was spent in a chaotic household of twelve children who had neither the time nor the outlet to ponder questions of race and identity. ![]() Ruth married Andrew Dennis McBride, a black man from North Carolina. In The Color of Water author James McBride writes both his autobiography and a tribute to the life of his mother, Ruth McBride. The chapters alternate between James McBride's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking place before her son was born. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995 it is also a tribute to his mother, whom he calls Mommy, or Ma. ![]()
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