The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

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 confront...