TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,E.Dolores
TI  - Say I'm dead: a family memoir of race, secrets, and love 
SN  - 9781641602747
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Lawrence Hill Books
KW  - Johnson, E. Dolores.
KW  - Jackson, Ella Lewis,
KW  - Jackson family.
KW  - Lewis family.
KW  - African Americans
KW  - New York
KW  - Buffalo
KW  - Biography
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Racially mixed families
KW  - Interracial marriage
KW  - Indianapolis (Ind.)
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes discussion questions; 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
N2  - "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."--
ER  -