

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Bookworm #88 -  Author Conversation: Martha S. Jones
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Prizewinning scholar and renowned author of Black history Martha S. Jones will join the Bookworm for a conversation on identity, belonging, and family, drawing from her powerful new book, "The Trouble with Color: An American Family Memoir."

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 confronted her with a question that inspired a lifetime of introspection: “Who do you think you are?”

Jones delves into her family’s past for answers. In every generation since her great-great-great-grandmother survived enslavement to raise a free family, color determined her ancestors’ lives. But the color line was shifting and jagged, not fixed and straight. Some backed away from it, others skipped along it, and others still were cut deep by its sharp teeth.

Journeying across centuries, from rural Kentucky and small-town North Carolina to New York City and its suburbs, The Trouble of Color is a lyrical, deeply felt meditation on the most fundamental matters of identity, belonging, and family.

Sponsored by Cinda-Sue Davis.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ann-arbor-michigan/bookworm-88-author-conversation-martha-s-jones/200029625382226
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness, fine-arts, meditation, black-history-month, kentucky-derby
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Ann Arbor, Michigan
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190, United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: William L. Clements Library (https://allevents.in/org/william-l-clements-library/12609427)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190, United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** William L. Clements Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, health-wellness, fine-arts, meditation, black-history-month, kentucky-derby
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Bookworm #88 -  Author Conversation: Martha S. Jones ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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