Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother - Softcover

Turner, Sugar; Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292701950 ISBN 13: 9780292701953

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 2003

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Book by Turner Sugar EhlersTracy Bachrach

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"The phrase welfare mother appears regularly in newspaper articles and is heard frequently on television news programs. This book provides a much-needed context for that all-too-common expression. . . . Inspirational is a much overused term, but it applies here. It's impossible to read this book and not develop an intense respect and admiration for the author. A moving look at the welfare life and a powerful testament to one woman's strength and resilience."

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All her life, Sugar Turner has had to hustle to survive. An African American woman living in the inner city, she has been a single mother juggling welfare checks, food stamps, boyfriends and husbands, illegal jobs, and home businesses to make ends meet for herself and her five children. Her life's path has also wandered through the wilderness of crack addiction and prostitution, but her strong faith in God and her willingness to work hard for a better life pulled her through. Today, Turner is off welfare and is completing her education. She is computer literate, holds a job in the local school system, has sent three of her children to college, and is happily married. 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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• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0292701950
• ISBN 13: 9780292701953
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272