The Trouble of Color

An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times –bestselling author of  Memorial Drive ) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times –bestselling author of How the Word is Passed ) 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