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.

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Tierra B. Tivis holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching and scholarship focuses on early childhood, early childhood special education, and Black families and resilience from a Black Feminist and Critical Race perspective.

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Acknowledgments Laurence J. Parker: Introduction These People Are Suffering: Help versus Incarceration Tools for Understanding Drug Addiction and Black Mothers' Standpoint Origin of the Crack Ho': Mammies, Jezebels, Controlled Images, and Prosecution of Addiction From Suga to Shit: The Drug Business and Destruction of Black Communities More About the Mothers, Research Practice, Black Motherhood and Addiction I Had Help: Kinship, Drug Addictions, and Black Family Resilience Wasn' No Junkie, I Was a Workin' Addict ... It's a Difference: Self-Definition of Black Mothers' Roles and Responsibilities Crack Baby Aftermath and Navigating Educational Institutions I Was Just Cryin' Out To God: Recovery and the Spirituality of Struggle Discussion: What the Mothers Made Me Think About Contributor BioDr. Laurence J. Parker Index.