{"id":59693,"date":"2020-06-09T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59693"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:04:57","slug":"say-im-dead-a-family-memoir-of-race-secrets-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59693","title":{"rendered":"Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Chicago Review Press<\/a>
\n2020-06-02
\n288 Pages
\n6 x 9
\nFormats: Cloth, Mobipocket, EPUB, PDF
\nISBN: 9781641602747<\/p>\n

E. Dolores Johnson<\/strong><\/a>
\nBoston, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Say I’m Dead<\/em> is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time\u2014or lynching\u2014for violating Indiana’s antimiscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s black father and white mother fled Indianapolis<\/a> to secretly marry in Buffalo, New York<\/a>. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her father’s black genealogy. But in the process, Johnson suddenly realized that her mother’s whole white family was\u2014and always had been\u2014missing. When she began to pry, her mother’s 36-year-old secret spilled out. Her mother had simply vanished from Indiana, evading an FBI<\/a> and police search that had ended with the conclusion that she had been the victim of foul play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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