Go Back and Get It
Title | Go Back and Get It PDF eBook |
Author | Dionne Ford |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2023-04-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1645030156 |
An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family. To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. “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 unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole.
Don't Make Me Go Back, Mommy
Title | Don't Make Me Go Back, Mommy PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Sanford |
Publisher | Multnomah |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Ritual abuse victims |
ISBN | 9780880703673 |
Five-year-old Allison is one of a group of children who are abused and subjected to horrible rituals at a perverse day care center, but with therapy and her parents' love she begins the healing process.
Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
Title | Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American PDF eBook |
Author | Wajahat Ali |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2022-01-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393867986 |
“Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!” This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but is now an unaffordable place to live? Or Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago? Growing up living the suburban American dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties. (“Become a doctor!”) He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants, but he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced communists as America’s enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y. Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering personal stories with astute insights into national security, immigration, and pop culture. In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive, and delicious America.
Don't Go Back to School
Title | Don't Go Back to School PDF eBook |
Author | Kio Stark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Adult education |
ISBN | 9780988949003 |
A handbook for independent learners based on 100 ethnographic interviews, with guidance, how-to, and interviewee stories.
Once You Go Back
Title | Once You Go Back PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Martin |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1583229442 |
In 2000, Douglas A. Martin burst onto the American literary scene with his sexy debut novel, Outline of My Lover. Following up with three more books, including Branwell, a novel of the Brontë brother, Martin has established himself as an acclaimed and distinctive American writer of the new century. His semi-autobiographical novel Once You Go Back is about growing up in a strained working-class household transplanted to the South. In his inimitably elliptical and evocative style, Martin carefully brings out the curiosity of children on the verge of becoming sexual, and their confusion in the midst of family violence.
If We Could Go Back
Title | If We Could Go Back PDF eBook |
Author | Cara Dee |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2019-06-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781073526833 |
My sister asked me if I could stand the sight my own reflection, if I'd caused enough damage yet, but I didn't see myself when I looked into the mirror. I saw Kieran standing behind me, pressing a kiss to my shoulder while he undid my belt. I saw everything I wanted that I couldn't have. Not unless I was prepared to hurt everyone around me. Kieran was in a similar situation. Were we monsters or men? Were they one and the same? Did we give a flying f-hell. We did care. Just not enough to stop, not enough to walk away, and I knew we constantly asked ourselves the same question because of it. If we could go back to when we met on the train...if we could erase the deceit, erase our first hello...would we?
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl
Title | I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Karyna McGlynn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781932511765 |
2008 Kathryn A. Morton Prizewinner, selected by Lynn Emanuel. Poetry with a Sonic Youth soundtrack.