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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