Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother
Autor Sugar Turner, Tracy Bachrach Ehlersen Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2003
In this engrossing book, Sugar Turner collaborates with anthropologist Tracy Bachrach Ehlers in telling her story. Through conversations with Ehlers, diary entries, and letters, Turner vividly and openly describes all aspects of her life, including motherhood, relationships with men, welfare and work, and her attachment to her friends, family, and life in the "hood." Ehlers also gives her reactions to Turner's story, discussing not only how it belies the "welfare queen" stereotype, but also how it forced her to confront her own lingering confusions about race, her own bigotry.
What emerges from this book is a fascinating story of two women from radically different backgrounds becoming equal witnesses to each other's lives. By allowing us into the real world of an inner-city African American mother, they replace with compassion and insight the stereotypes, half-truths, and scorn that too often dominate public discourse.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292701953
ISBN-10: 0292701950
Pagini: 267
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292701950
Pagini: 267
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Sugar Turner (not her real name) lives in an African American neighborhood in a midwestern city and works as a community outreach director for the local school system. Tracy Bachrach Ehlers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver.
Cuprins
- Foreword by Molly Ivins
- Sugar's Preface
- Sugar's Shouts
- Tracy's Acknowledgments
- Tracy's Introduction
- Chapter One: The List of Men
- Chapter Two: The Hustle: Welfare and Work
- Chapter Three: The Mr. Lester Chronicles
- Chapter Four: Mother, Daughter, Sister, Woman
- Chapter Five: Feeling Blessed
- Epilogue
Descriere
An African American woman from the inner city tells her life story, in collaboration with an anthropologist.