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Subject(s)

• Johnson, E. Dolores [Browse]
• Jackson, Ella Lewis 1910-2005—Family [Browse]
• Jackson family [Browse]
• Lewis family [Browse]
• African Americans—New York—Buffalo—Biography [Browse]
• African Americans—Race identity [Browse]
• Multiracial families—New York—Buffalo [Browse]
• Interracial marriage—New York—Buffalo [Browse]
• Indianapolis (Ind.)—Race relations [Browse]
• Indianapolis (Ind.)—Biography [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

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.

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Other title(s)

Family memoir of race, secrets, and love

ISBN

• 9781641602747 (hardcover)
• 1641602740 (hardcover)

LCCN

2020003064

OCLC

1125087956

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