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03528aam a2200433 i 4500 001 FD1241EEEA4011EDA3E935F65AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230504010033 008 221126s2023 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022030082 020 $a 164503013X 020 $a 9781645030133 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1340740402 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d NBO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185 $b .F594 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20221206 100 1 $a Ford, Dionne, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Go back and get it : $b a memoir of race, inheritance, and intergenerational healing / $c Dionne Ford. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York : $b Bold Type Books, $c 2023. 263 $a 2304 300 $a 240 pages $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift, is among them. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take and how to root it out of the body? In Go Back and Get It, Ford's debut memoir, she tells us: it manifests as alcoholism and depression and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in Ford's own experience of rape at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which, much later, she builds an interracial family and manages the heartache of her daughters' racial confusion; it wracks her insides, stalling both her pregnancies. Meanwhile, Ford's preoccupation with healing is what truly sets this book apart. She tries eye-movement therapy, visits to a medium, twelve-step recovery, capoeira, a sugar- and wheat-free diet. "Anything," she writes, "to keep from going back there." But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors and uncover what about them she can to begin to feel whole. Thus begins a journey that's anguished and hopeful and strange, one that brings Ford to long-lost cousins both Black and white, to forgotten newspaper articles about her great-uncle's lynching and to abandoned gravesites, to an eBay sword that belonged to the Colonel and that she considers using as a way into the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Go Back and Get It combines the story of her inner life with research and reflections on how racial trauma is generated, repeated, stored, and processed, what the cycle looks like and how it might be broken. It is a memoir about how, in the search for belonging, family can be a source of loneliness and even danger and also a true home"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ford, Dionne, $d 1969- 650 0 $a African American women authors $v Biography. 650 0 $a Generational trauma $z United States. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Race discrimination $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409044429.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230624010023.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230505010354.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230505010105.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230504010241.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FD1241EEEA4011EDA3E935F65AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search