Sugar's life in the hood
Subtitle: the story of a former welfare mother
By: Sugar Turner & Tracy Bachrach Ehlers.
Contributors: Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Turner, Sugar, 1945-; Ehlers, Tracy Bachrach; African American women -- Interviews; Ex-welfare recipients -- United States -- Interviews; Poor single mothers -- United States -- Interviews; African American women -- Social conditions -- Case studies; Inner cities -- United States -- Case studies; Female friendship -- United States -- Case studies; Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography; Women, White -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Interviews.; Case studies.; Biography.
Description: "In this 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."--BOOK JACKET.