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

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Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	B JOHNSON, E. DOLORES	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	306.8509 JOHNSON	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography	B-JOHNSON JOH	Missing
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	B JOHNSON, E.D.	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies	B JOHNSON E. DOLORES J	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Subject	Johnson, E. Dolores.
	Jackson, Ella Lewis, 1910-2005 -- Family.
	African Americans -- New York -- Buffalo -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	Jackson family.
	Lewis family.
	Racially mixed families -- New York -- Buffalo.
	Interracial marriage -- New York -- Buffalo.
	Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Race relations.
	Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography.
	Jackson family. (OCoLC)fst00218454
	Lewis family. (OCoLC)fst00213955
	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	African Americans -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00799666
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Interracial marriage. (OCoLC)fst00977484
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racially mixed families. (OCoLC)fst01896542
	Indiana -- Indianapolis. (OCoLC)fst01205182
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Added Title	Family memoir of race, secrets, and love
Other Form:	Online version: Johnson, E. Dolores, Say I'm dead Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2020] 9781641602754 (DLC) 2020003065
ISBN	9781641602747 (hardcover)
	1641602740 (hardcover)

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