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Life of the Mind: "The Color of Water" by James McBride

The Color of Water by James McBride was the University of Tennessee's first "Life of the Mind" book selection. The Life of the Mind Program began with the fall 2003 semester and has continued every fall semester since. The Libraries also provide a page specifically for the Life of the Mind book.

Call Number
Title
Author
BM 205.C62 2000 The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America Cohen, Steven
BM 561.W65 This is My God Wouk, Herman
BM 565.W54 1998 The Way of the Boundary Crosser: An Introduction to Jewish Flexidoxy Winkler, Gershon
BM 690.S377 2000 The Jewish Experience of Time: Philosophical Dimensions of the Jewish Holy Days Schweid, Eliezer
BM 690.T73 The Complete Book of Jewish Observance Trepp, Leo
BM 700.C39 1993 Celebration & Renewal: rites of Passage in Judaism Geffen, Rela
BM 700.D58 To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life Donin, Hayim
BM 700.G616 2000 Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today Goldman, Ari
BM 723.H65 1990 Finding Our Way: Jewish Texts and the Lives We Lead Today Holtz, Barry
BM 723.K52 Voices of Wisdom: Jewish Wisdom and Ethics for Everyday Living Klagsbrun, F.
BM 723.P47 1996 Taking Judaism Personally: Creating a Meaningful Spiritual Life Petsonk, Judy
BM 723.R69 1997 Flight from Commitment: An Explanation of Paradoxes in Jewish Life Rozwaski, Chaim
BM 726.L5 19994 Lifecycles Orenstein, Debra
BM 729.W6 B747 Mornings and Mourning: A Kaddish Journal Broner, E. M.
D 128.9.A1 L44 2002 Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America Lee, Jennifer
DS 112.J593 1971 Jewish Society Through the Ages Ben-Sasson, H. H.
DS 112.L36 1996 Jewish Issues in Multiculturalism: A Handbook for Educators and Clinicians Langman, P.
DS 112.L76 2000 The Jewish Cultural Tapestry: International Jewish Folk Traditions Lowenstein, S.
DS 115.2.A58 1997 The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century Antler, Joyce
DS 143.B5 1977 The Jews Bermant, Chaim
E 184.A1 B43 Almost White Berry, Brewton
E 184.A1 H49 1984 Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America Higham, John
E 184.A1 K733 1998Q From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans Korgen, K.
E 184.A1 O34 1997 Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society Fine, Michelle
E 184.A1 S794 2001 The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America Steinberg, S.
E 184.35.D56 2002 Jewish Americans: The Immigrant Experience Diner, Hasia
E 184.36.A34 A47 1998 African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict Franklin, V.P.
E 184.36.A34 B53 2000 Black Zion: African American Religions Encounters with Judaism Chireau, Yvonne
E 184.36.A34 M45 2000 Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South Melnick, Jeffrey
E 184.36.E84 F57 2000 Jewish Life and American Culture Fishman, Sylvia
E 184.6.L48 2000 Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology Marable, M.
E 185.5.D81 1973 The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois, W. E. B.
E 185.6.B75 They Seek a City Bontemps, Arna
E 185.61.F7216 1998 Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism Forman, Seth
E 185.61.F8 1991 Shadows of Race and Class Franklin, R.
E 185.61.F858 1995 What Went Wrong?: The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance Friedman, Murray
E 185.61.M353 2002 Freedom: A Photographic History of the American American Struggle Marable, M.
E 185.61.S364 2001 Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement Schultz, Debra
E 185.615.A9 1997 Black , Jewish, and Interracial: It is not the color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, & Other Myths of Identity Azoulay, Katya
E 185.615.C64 1988 Black-Jewish Relations: The View from the State Capitols: A Survey Based on Interviews with Black Senators Cohen, Kitty
E 185.615.C642 1998 Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States Cohen, Mark
E 185.615.C644 1996 Black and White Together: The Search for Common Ground Collum, Danny
E 185.615.C645 1996 Color, Class, Identity: The New Politics of Race Arthur, John
E 185.615.C658 1998 Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response Eberhardt, J.
E 185.615.C68 1997 Color-blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-obsessed World Cose, Ellis
E 185.615.C77 1995 The All-american Skin Game, or, the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 Crouch, Stanley
E 185.615.C85 1999 The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries Lamont, M.
E 185.615.D3 1984 Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, 1752-1984: A Selected Bibliography Davis, Lenwood
E 185.615.D385 2001 Blacks and Whites Meeting in America: Eighteen Essays on Race White, Terry
E 185.615.D453 1999 When Equality Ends: Stories About Race and Resistance Delgado, Richard
E 185.615.H55 1995 Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation Hochschild, J.
E 185.62.D29 1991 Who is Black?: One Nations Definition Davis, F. James
E 185.62.W54 New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States Williamson, J.
E 185.625.K46 2002 Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word Kennedy, R.
E 185.97.G795 A3 1970 Ely: Too Black, Too White Green, Ely
E 185.97.M38 A3 1993 Love in Black and White: The Triumph of Love Over Prejudice and Taboo Mathabane, M.
F 128.68.H3 J33 2001 Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America Jackson, John
F 128.9.J5 H215 1985 Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family Harris, Lis
F 128.9.J5 J37 1986 Looking Back: The American Dream Through Immigrant Eyes Jastrow, M.
F 128.9.J5 M46 1992 Hasidic People: A Place in the New World Mintz, Jerome
F 129.B7 W56 2000 A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn Wilder, Craig
F 215.R128 1994 Race and Class in the American South Since 1890 Stokes, M.
GN 237.R4 1970 Race Mixture: Studies in Intermarriage and Miscegenation Reuter, Edward
HM 821.S65 2001 Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective Grusky, David
HN 57.S59 1989 Social and Gender Boundaries in United States Chan, Sucheng
HN 59.2.E96 1997 Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States Cyrus, Virginia
HN 64.P75 One National Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Polenberg, R.
HN 79.A13 K565 1995 The Countercultural South Kirby, Jack
HQ 777.9.F86 1994 Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity Funderburg, Lise
HQ 777.9.G85 1998 Skin Color Recognition, Preference, and Identification in Interracial Children: A Comparative Study Gunthrope, W.
HQ 792.U5 C66 2000 Honky Conley, Dalton
HQ 1031.D34 2000 Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World Dalmage, Heather
HQ 1031.R64 2001 Love's Revolution: Interracial Marriage Root, Maria
HQ 1031.R65 2003 Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America Romano, Renee
HQ 1031.S85 1973 Interracial Marriage: Expectations and Realities Stuart, Irving
N 7415.H49 1999 Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art Heyd, Milly
PJ 5129.S49 Z524 A Little Boy in Search of God: Mysticism in a Personal Light Singer, Isaac
PN 56.R16 S66 1997 Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature Sollors, Werner
N 6120.95.J6 O94 1998 The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories Stavans, Ilan
PR 120.J48 R38 1997 A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory Ravvin, Norman
PS 153.J4 A118 A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction Aarons, Victoria
PS 153.J4 B87 1996 Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women Burstein, Janet
PS 153.J4 F86 2000 Contemporary Jewish American Writer and the Multicultural Dilemma: The return of the Exiled Furman, Andrew
PS 153.N5 B83 1998 Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation Budick, E. Miller
PS 153.N5 N48 1999 Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America Newton, Adam
PS 173.N4 G64 2000 Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature Goffman, E.
PS 228.P35 B46 1996 The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern american Literature Bennett, Juda
PS 374.J48 B5 Immigrant-survivors: Post-Holocaust Consciousness in Recent Jewish American Fiction Bilik, Dorothy
PS 374.J48 G57 1984 The new Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea Girgus, Sam
PS 374.M84 B47 Neither White Nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction Berzon, Judith
PS 647.J4r58 1970 The Rise of American Jewish Literature: An Anthology of Selections from the Major Novels Angoff, Charles
PS 3568.O77 A66 1992 Accidents of Influence: Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America Rosen, Norma
TR 647.D375 A4 2002 Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965 Davidson, Bruce

 

 

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