Fearful of prison timeāor lynchingāfor violating Indianaās anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police search that ended with the declaration to her family that she was the victim of foul play, either dead or a victim of human trafficking. When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her motherās white blood in her identity. As an African American, she withstood the advice of a high school counselor who said that blacks donāt go to college by graduating from Harvard. Then, as a code-switching business executive feeling too far from her black roots, she searched her fatherās black genealogy. JohnsonĀ was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side wasāand always had beenāmissing. When confronted, her mother's decades-old secret spilled out. Despite her parentsā crippling and well-founded fears of rejection and reprisals, and her black militant brotherās accusation that she wasĀ a race traitor, Johnson wentĀ searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, itās not just their shock and her mamaās shame that have to be overcome, but her own fraught experiences with whites.
This book title, Say I'm Dead (A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love) - 9781641607766, ISBN: 9781641607766, by E. Dolores Johnson, published by Chicago Review Press (June 7, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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