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082 00 305.896/0730092|aB|223/eng/20221206 
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100 1  Ford, Dionne,|d1969-|eauthor. 
245 10 Go back and get it :|ba memoir of race, inheritance, and 
       intergenerational healing /|cDionne Ford. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBold Type Books,|c2023. 
300    xi, 240 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240). 
520    "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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Ford, Dionne,|d1969- 
650  0 African American women authors|vBiography. 
650  0 Generational trauma|zUnited States. 
650  0 African Americans|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Race discrimination|zUnited States|xHistory. 
651  0 United States|xRace relations.