Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Say I'm dead

Oclc number

1125087956

Responsibility statement

E. Dolores Johnson

Sub title

a family memoir of race, secrets, and love

Summary

"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

Table Of 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

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Family memoir of race, secrets, and loveSay I am dead

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