Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Ford Dionne
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Ford Dionne One woman's reckoning with the life of her great-grandmother, born to a cotton broker and an enslaved…
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Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Ford Dionne
One woman's reckoning with the life of her great-grandmother, born to a cotton broker and an enslaved woman; the echoes this legacy finds throughout her family history and in her own experience of sexual abuse; and her tireless efforts to reclaim her own body in the face of intergenerational racial trauma.One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. 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 other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation.
In Go Back and Get It, Ford's debut memoir, she