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A memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from a preeminent historian“Intimate and searching.” —Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial DriveNamed a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian • TIMEMartha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to speak. Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her …
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Undertittel
An American Family Memoir
Forlag
Basic Books
Utgitt
11 januar 2025
Sjanger
Biografier, Dokumentar og fakta, Historie, Politikk og samfunn
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781541601024
A memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from a preeminent historian
“Intimate and searching.” —Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive
Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian • TIME
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to speak. Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: “Who do you think you are?”
Now a prizewinning scholar of Black history, Jones delves into her family’s past for answers. In every generation since her great-great-great-grandmother survived enslavement to raise a free family, color determined her ancestors’ lives. But the color line was shifting and jagged, not fixed and straight. Some backed away from it, others skipped along it, and others still were cut deep by its sharp teeth.
Journeying across centuries, from rural Kentucky and small-town North Carolina to New York City and its suburbs, The Trouble of Color is a lyrical, deeply felt meditation on the most fundamental matters of identity, belonging, and family.
“Intimate and searching.” —Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive
Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian • TIME
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to speak. Suspicious of the color of her skin and the texture of her hair, he confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: “Who do you think you are?”
Now a prizewinning scholar of Black history, Jones delves into her family’s past for answers. In every generation since her great-great-great-grandmother survived enslavement to raise a free family, color determined her ancestors’ lives. But the color line was shifting and jagged, not fixed and straight. Some backed away from it, others skipped along it, and others still were cut deep by its sharp teeth.
Journeying across centuries, from rural Kentucky and small-town North Carolina to New York City and its suburbs, The Trouble of Color is a lyrical, deeply felt meditation on the most fundamental matters of identity, belonging, and family.
