Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Johnson, E. Dolores.
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Jackson, Ella Lewis, 1910-2005 -- Family.
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Jackson family.
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Lewis family.
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Jackson family |
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Lewis family |
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African Americans -- New York -- Buffalo -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Racially mixed families -- New York -- Buffalo.
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Interracial marriage -- New York -- Buffalo.
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Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Race relations.
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Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography.
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African Americans |
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African Americans -- Race identity |
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Families |
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Interracial marriage |
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Race relations |
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Racially mixed families |
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Indiana -- Indianapolis |
Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Added Title |
Family memoir of race, secrets, and love |
Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, E. Dolores. Say I'm dead Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020] 9781641602747 (DLC) 2020003064 |
ISBN |
9781641602778 electronic book |
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1641602775 electronic book |
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9781641602761 electronic book |
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1641602759 electronic book |
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9781641602754 electronic book |
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1641602767 electronic book |
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9781641602747 hardcover |
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