{"id":48168,"date":"2016-07-10T00:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T00:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48168"},"modified":"2016-07-10T00:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T00:31:43","slug":"colorblindness-is-not-progressive-a-review-of-the-color-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48168","title":{"rendered":"Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of \u201cThe Color of Water\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetempest.co\/2016\/06\/11\/news\/the-color-of-water-showed-me-the-reality-of-colorblindness\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of \u201cThe Color of Water\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetempest.co\" target=\"_blank\">The Tempest<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emmdubb16\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maya Williams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn\u2019t just a white perspective to have or to talk about.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7134\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Color of Water: a Black Man\u2019s Tribute to his White Mother<\/em><\/a> (1995) tells the story of a mixed race man named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmcbride.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James McBride<\/a> and his Jewish mother coming of age in a time when mixed race visibility was relatively taboo. This nonfiction novel\u2019s format is such a unique one because while you read it, you can see how fluid time is and how history is capable of repeating itself for generations.<\/p>\n<p>This is such a good book, you guys. After re-reading it, I was struck once more by the intricacies of McBride\u2019s storytelling, the parallels between McBride and his mother, and their human strength. Hands down, one of the most interesting people to read about in this book is Ruth McBride Jordan, the author\u2019s mom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/thetempest.co\/2016\/06\/11\/news\/the-color-of-water-showed-me-the-reality-of-colorblindness\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of \u201cThe Color of Water\u201d The Tempest 2016-06-11 Maya Williams We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn\u2019t just a white perspective to have or to talk about. The Color of Water: a Black Man\u2019s Tribute to his White Mother (1995) tells the story of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[364,23983,23982],"class_list":["post-48168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-james-mcbride","tag-maya-williams","tag-the-tempest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48169,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168\/revisions\/48169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}