Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions: Counternarratives of
Black Family Resilience offers a unique perspective on the
complexities of being a Black mother addicted to crack, powder
cocaine, heroin, and crank. Qualitative interviews provide rich
narratives from five Black mothers challenging negative controlled
images and stereotypes of Black motherhood and drug addiction. Using
Black Feminist Thought, Critical Race Feminism, and Resilience as
conceptual frameworks, this book confronts hegemonic constructions of
Black mothers and their children within the context of drug
addictions. Particular attention is focused on using the mothers’
self-definitions of struggles and family resilience to dismantle the
negative controlled images of the junkie and the crack ho’ and her
crack baby. The mothers in this book speak truth to their experiences
with motherhood and addictions to some of the most powerful street
drugs that explicitly defy the junkie, crack ho’, and crack baby
images. The book also addresses tensions existing within
researcher-participant relationships and nuances unique to research
with Black mothers in recovery. Personal lessons learned and
challenges experienced during the research process are highlighted as
Tivis shares dilemmas of self-reflections of positionality,
accountability and use of language. Rethinking Black Motherhood and
Drug Addictions contains important implications for research and
practice in education and across other disciplines concentrating on
mothers and children from racially diverse backgrounds. This book will
be relevant for both undergraduate and graduate students and academics
within these disciplines. Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug
Addictions will be of interest to advanced pre-service teachers and
other disciplines engaging in clinical and professional practice with
addiction and with families.
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Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781433149641
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Peter Lang
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter