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by Martha S. Jones| 2025| 25| English

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An “assiduous scholar and absorbing writer” (New York Times) confronts the limits of the historian’s craft in this powerful memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America A child of the civil rights era, Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But in Jones’s first semester of college, a Black Studies classmate challenged her 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 “Who do you think you are?” Now a prizewinning scholar of Black history, Jones delves into her own family’s past for answers, only to find a story that archives alone can’t tell, a story of race in America that takes us beyond slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights. Ever since her great-great-great-grandmother Nancy emerged from bondage in 1865 determined to raise a free family, skin color has determined Jones’s ancestors’ lives. But color and race are not the same, and through her family’s story, Jones discovers the uneven, unpredictable relationship between the two. Drawing readers along the shifting and jagged path of America’s color line, The Trouble of Color is a lyrical, deeply felt meditation on the most fundamental matters of identity, belonging, and family.

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Author:Martha S. Jones
Publication Year:2025
ISBN:9781541601000
Language:English
File Size:25
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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