Say I'm dead: a family memoir of race, secrets, and love
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Publisher:
Lawrence Hill Books
Publication Date:
©2020
Edition:
First edition
Language:
English
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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."--
Subjects
Subjects
African Americans
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- Biography
African Americans -- Race identity
Family
Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography
Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Race relations
Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
Jackson, Ella Lewis
Jackson, Ella Lewis, -- 1910-2005 -- Family
Jackson family
Johnson, E. Dolores
Lewis family
Multiracial families
Multiracial families -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
Race identity
Race relations
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- Biography
African Americans -- Race identity
Family
Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography
Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Race relations
Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
Jackson, Ella Lewis
Jackson, Ella Lewis, -- 1910-2005 -- Family
Jackson family
Johnson, E. Dolores
Lewis family
Multiracial families
Multiracial families -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
Race identity
Race relations
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ISBN:
9781641602747
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Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography
Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Race relations
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Lewis family
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Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography
Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Race relations
Interracial marriage -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
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Jackson, Ella Lewis, -- 1910-2005 -- Family
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Lewis family
Multiracial families -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
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Interracial marriage
Jackson family
Jackson, Ella Lewis
Johnson, E. Dolores
Lewis family
Multiracial families
Race identity
Race relations
Family
Interracial marriage
Jackson family
Jackson, Ella Lewis
Johnson, E. Dolores
Lewis family
Multiracial families
Race identity
Race relations
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