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Say I'm dead : a family memoir of race, secrets, and love
—Johnson, E. Dolores, author.
2020

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"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame that have to be overcome, but her own fraught experiences with whites." -- Provided by publisher.

Item Details

ISBN: 9781641602747

Description: pages cm

Other Title: Family memoir of race, secrets, and love

Contents:

  • Code Switch
  • Dress Box
  • Lonely Only
  • My Whole Self
  • Details
  • A Train Ride
  • Black Girl
  • I Am Somebody
  • Searching
  • Deep South
  • A Lingering Smoky Odor
  • Too Through
  • Just Listen
  • The Visit
  • Indiana Chronicles
  • The Guard Tower
  • Shift
  • Europe
  • Belonging Everywhere
  • Flow On
  • Leaning into Brown.

LCCN: 2020003064

Control Number: 2911094

Publisher: Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020]
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