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Title: [4 of 5] Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love (2020) by E. Dolores Johnson, Chapters 12 - 16

[4 of 5] Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love (2020) by E. Dolores Johnson, Chapters 12 - 16 - SLA at Beeber 24-25 English 3D

Author: E. Dolores Johnson

Johnson, E. Dolores. "Too Through," "Just Listen," "The Visit," "Indiana Chronicles," and "The Guard Tower," Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love, Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, IL, 2020, pp. 130-175.

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"And what about your kids' lives, Mama?" I wanted to say. What about the sort-of race her reinvented life left my brothers and me to figure out? 1David tried to be the blackest of race advocates while Charles Nathan was on the white side of town where his porcelain skin could pass. And I straddled the racial divide, studying and practicing white ways to be accepted in white corporations while dying to rip off the mask and be black me. We three kids were caught in the middle of two races, although our parents had assigned our lives wholly to the black one. Mama had always thought race shouldn't matter. Yet we siblings were fossilized in the amber of our parents' decision to mix races and hide at a time when 96 percent of Americans were against it.

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