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Historian Martha S. Jones’ New Memoir Traces Five Generations of Her Own Lineage

In 'The Trouble of Color,' the Johns Hopkins University professor blends a legacy of enslavement, passing, Jim Crow, and colorism into a complex portrait of an American family in an all-too-often racist land.