The Color Of Water By Ray Bradbury

In Chapter 3, Douglas presents three different theological perspectives of the Black Christ. Albert Cleage, James Cone, and J. Deotis Roberts discuss the idea of Christ being Black. Cleage presents, “the most provocative version of Christ’s Blackness” (55). His argument is theoretical in the utmost sense of God as flesh representing Black Americans, but suggesting that Jesus was actually, “…the Black son of a Black Israelite woman and of a Black God” (56). It is of the upmost necessity for Jesus to be ethnically Black to Cleage because of, “…his role as pastor, his understanding of the Black church, and his ties to Black nationalism” (56). Because Cleage views Christ as literally Black, he is not forced to

Furthermore, the chapter discussed the religion of Christianity, which is not the correct religion of a black man in America. History have shown that Christianity was used as an inferior strategy toward African Americans. In chapter 2, there is a connection between Christianity and the Jim Crow segregation. The author would go on to elaborate on the qualities of fear, as fear is produced by a dominant group who justified obedience and order. The society that a person lives in also determines their social status, as in a hierarchy. The book suggested that society is a place that enforces the oppression of colored people. Jesus was the disinherited and the oppressed, whereas he had to find a means of survival.

When people are treated unfairly or unjustly, how should they perceive it and how do they generally react to this? In The Color of Water by James McBride, prejudice shapes James and Ruth in many ways, James has different stories than Ruth, due to the fact that he lived in a different time period, which makes his scenario different from Ruth’s. Both faced adversity, and stood up for themselves and defended themselves in many different ways just to make sure that they could survive in society. Ruth had always taught her children to be independent. She comes from an interesting background, she was starving of love and affection as a child. Ruth has experienced a lot of grief in her life due to all of these bad events that occurred. Even growing up, her father had treated her unfairly by taking advantage of her sexually. This was definitely not a right thing to do, Ruth’s father was an abusive man who had a sex addiction. He was found to have an affair with another woman even though Mameh knew about it the entire time. Due to her rough past when practicing Judaism, she decided to practice Catholicism after marrying Andrew Dennis McBride. She felt as if she was a freer person, she gained a personal connection to the religion which was good because it helped for her to get her mind off of things. James is a very confused boy, being black and white. He’s unsure where he fits in when it comes to society. A personal connection that I have to

In the book “The Color of Water” by James McBride, Chapter 5 mainly focuses on Ruth’s father (Tateh) and his connection towards his family. In this chapter the author creates how her father only cared about money, his business, and being an American, it also develops the ways he treated his family by treating his wife badly, sexually abusing Ruth, and demanding the kids to work at his shop. The whole chapter comes together to realize Ruth’s fathers true characteristics of being greedy, unloving, and demanding. In chapter 5 “The Old Testament” James McBride uses Imagery and diction to prove love and affection are sometimes sacrificed when it comes to greed, creating a powerful effect.

In the book The Color of Water, the author, James McBride not only takes us through his own journey, but also gives us a perspective on the life of his mother, Ruth. James’ admiration for his mom reflects throughout the story while showing the readers the growth and development her character experienced as she went through life. Ruth McBride-Jordan endured many heartbreaking hardships throughout her life, but nevertheless, had an innumerable amount of cheerful and zestful moments. She grew to be a remarkable woman; however, it was a long journey before she became that woman. Separating from her family, and leaving the South was one of the hardest choices she ever made, yet it was best for her, in order to move on and adjust her future for the better. A main factor in Ruth’s life prosperity was her first husband, Andrew Dennis McBride, who taught her many important things and, in a sense, changed her entire lifestyle and outlook on the world. The last large impression that altered her life immensely in a way that led her character to mature, was the death of her beloved “Dennis”. These elements all highlight a point in this woman’s life that caused a development in her personality.

Furthermore, the chapter discussed the religion of Christianity, which is not the correct religion of a black man in America. History has shown that Christianity was used as an inferior strategy toward African Americans. In chapter 2, there is a connection between Christianity and the Jim Crow segregation. The author would go on to elaborate on the qualities of fear, as fear is produced by a dominant group who justified obedience and order. The society that a person lives in also determines their social status, as in a hierarchy. The book suggested that society is a place that enforces the oppression of colored people. Jesus was the disinherited and the oppressed, whereas he had to find a means of survival.

he book I read over the summer is called “The Color Of Water” by “James McBride” This book tells the story of the author's struggles growing up with racial identity issues. He struggled as a child finding out whether he was black or white, but choose to identify as black. He once questioned his mother what color God was, and she replied that he was the color of water. James had many tough times dealing with household struggling with money and twelve children, but when his stepfather, Hunter Jordan died he fell into a void of drugs, alcohol and thievery. He was sent to Kentucky where his sister lives, and was educated by a man nicknamed “Chicken Man’ on how James was wasting his life. James listened, turned away from his old life and became

The Color of Christ is a book that evokes memories of the exhausted images and lives of Jesus which preponderantly contributes to “the saga of race in America.” (5) The book modifies and wisely propagates the stereotypical images of Jesus throughout the history of the U.S, which offers the most striking responses. In the book, Blum and Harvey portray the world as a place that is filled with various images about Jesus. The book, in its entirety, has been used by the two authors to substantiate the atrocities that were prevalent at a time when there was supremacy among the whites. White supremacy echoed loudly and was basically reinforced by the argument that Jesus Christ was white so he would agree with this notion. From the vicissitudes, and the happenings in the first six chapters of the book, Blum and Harvey have carefully interwoven a tapestry of visions and dreams of Americans to illustrate the fact that Americans have remade Christ. Instead of the thought that we, humans were made in the likeness of Christ, the son of G-d, we reinvented this theory of Christ in our likeness to suit our bias whether it be positive or negative. Again, Christ is emblematic of their aspirations strivings for power and racial justice, and their deeply- entrenched terrors.

The definition of being a mixed person is being of descent of two or more races. However, in society, being a mixed person means so much more than this as each race entails its own cultural background and beliefs. These contrasting cultural backgrounds and beliefs are what cause debates on whether being mixed enables people to be accepted into multiple areas of society or if being mixed creates additional challenges when mixed people try to acquiesce into society. Clearly, James Mcbride agrees with the second argument by believing that being mixed makes it more difficult to assimilate into society. Mcbride recognizes how the contrasting cultures and beliefs that come with each race creates adversity against mixed peoples’ assimilation into multiple ethnic groups of society.

The novel, Color of Water, by James McBride details and reflects on racial prejudice from the perspective of two lives; the life of a Jewish mother, Ruth McBride Jordan, and then in the life of her black son, James.

The Color of Water by James McBride started its first chapter with Ruth McBride and the book is dedicated to her. Thus, it only seems appropriate to start the summary of the book telling the storyline involving Ruth first. Ruth McBride Jordan was born as Ruchel Dwajra Zylska in an Orthodox Jew family in Poland. When she was 2, her family moved to America from Europe and this point in time is mostly likely when her named had been Americanized into Rachel Deborah Shilsky. Ruth described how their lives revolved around the job contracts her father had. If work (as a rabbi) was, they would move there. During their time going around constantly, Dee-Dee, Ruth’s younger sister was born. Eventually, Ruth’s father had the family move to Suffolk, Virginia.

In the book The Color of the Water by James McBride, he shares his and his mother's childhood back and forth for each chapter throughout the book. His mother and McBride share similarities and differences from their childhood. Both uses every single details to tell the stories to the readers as if the readers were there. McBride uses simile and dialogue to create a persuasive text to prove each characters has characteristics by sharing his own experience stories to readers.

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother written by James McBride is a miraculous memoir about James’ and his mother’s life. He describes in detail what it was like growing up in a household with a white mother, a black father, and eleven black siblings. Biracial marriages and families were not the norm and nor was it accepted by society during that time. James encountered many misfortunes growing up and was constantly trying to figure out who he was because his family was different than other families. He felt that the only way to find out who he was by probing into his mother 's past which she refused to discuss for long period of time. She finally

In James Baldwin’s collection of essays in The Fire Next Time he expresses a call to action for Americans to abandon the belief that skin color separates people from one another and to unite together as a whole country. In the essays, he identifies religion as the source for this disillusioned belief that the whites’ skin makes them inherently better than African Americans merely because of their skin color. In participating in the Christian religion, he learns that the teachings to love one another go unpracticed towards those with a different skin color or of another religion. While religion benefits its members by preventing people from falling into the life of crime that prevails in the ghetto, its influence causes the members to develop

Propaganda is an easy trap to fall into when you are attempting to do something more than entertain or simply lay your personal feelings bare for an audience. The propagandist isn’t interested in exploring an issue in a dialogical fashion, but only seeks to sermonize or indoctrinate an audience with a very specific viewpoint. Even if that viewpoint is correct, the method of hammering home a given message discourages dialogue, conversation and the audience/artists/activist reciprocity discussed by Carter. Fear of propagandizing causes many artists to avoid producing work that could be interpreted as political or contains too clear a message. Just because some artists cross over into propaganda doesn’t mean that one should be afraid of producing meaning art. Since propaganda doesn’t allow for dialogue or conversation, a solution that falls into this practice would not be desirable.