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 Bio-Dr. Laurence J. Parker - Index.