Behind the Eight Ball
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-2457-2 (ISBN)
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between social and economic classes. In their own words, poor black womennameless, faceless, and marginalized by povertyshare the details of their lives before and after crack cocaine invaded their communities, each recalling the circumstances of her introduction to the drug and her first experience using sex to support her addiction. These candid interviews expose the socioeconomic changes in inner-city neighborhoods that created the perfect conditions for a crack stronghold; the crack cocaine economy's impact on the lives of inner-city residents; and the social and familial consequences of crack addiction among poor, black women.
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women places crack addiction, crack-related prostitution and its consequences, STDs, HIV, and pregnancy into the context of the larger social issues of inner-city poverty, race, gender, and class. This unique book reveals the sex-for-crack barter system as evidence of a long-term social exclusion and systemic racism that has worked to destroy the self-image of poor black American women. The women interviewed reflect this negative image, exchanging sex for crack on a regular basis to support their addictions at the risk-and reality-of unplanned pregnancies.
The baby I am carrying now, I don’t know who the father is. There are a few (men) that I had sex with around the time I got pregnantthat day. But which one it is, I don’t know who.
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women examines:
why poor black women addicted to crack are disproportionately at risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, and unplanned pregnancies
how the social and economic characteristics of poor black communities support crack distribution and consumption
how crack use and the exchange of sex for crack damages struggling black families
why the care of many children is entrusted to child welfare agencies
how and why women are marginalized in the crack culture
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women is an insightful and enlightening look at the motivations behind the decision to risk illness, injury, disease, death, and pregnancy to support addiction.
Tanya Telfair Sharpe
Foreword (Johnnetta B. Cole)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Social and Economic Precursors of Crack Use in Inner Cities
Crack Use and Women
Crack Use and Pregnancy
Crack Use and Motherhood
The Atlanta Crack Scene
Chapter 2. Bearing the Legacy of Social Change: A Theory of Gender Roles Among the Inner-City Poor
Gender Role Origins
Slavery and Gender Roles
Segregation and Gender Roles: Significance of the Sharecropping System
The Desegregation Era: Proliferation of a Ghetto Subculture and Increased Gender Role Tension
Late-Century Changes in Social Policy: 1980s and 1990s
Analysis of the Influence of Crack on Gender Roles
Chapter 3. The Crack Culture and Its Roles: The Complexities of Crack Prostitution
Addict’s Roles
The Crack Culture
Crack Houses
Crack House Roles and Rules
The Role of Black Women in the Crack Culture
Crack Roles versus Gender Roles
Gender Relationships in the Crack Culture
Defining Sex-for-Crack Exchange
Chapter 4. A Picture of the Women
Identification of the Women Studied
Women Who Exchanged Sex for Crack
Sex-for-Crack Pregnancies and Their Outcomes
Women Who Became Pregnant
Chapter 5. Lives of Women Who Exchange Sex for Crack
Stressed Life Situations
Difficult Beginnings: Lives Before Crack
The Crack Transformation
Chapter 6. Exchanging Sex for Crack and Sexual Risk Taking
Sex for Crack Initiation: Transition from Quasi-Relationships to Prostitution
Sexual Risk Taking
Role Negotiation: Partner Selection, Power, and Control
Chapter 7. Sex-for-Crack Pregnancies
The Women and Their Pregnancies
Issues Influencing Pregnancy Responses
Child Loss
Chapter 8. Sex-for-Crack Children
Life Circumstances of Sex-for-Crack Children
Children’s Relationships with Family Members
Mothering Sex-for-Crack Children
Abuse, Neglect, and Abandonment
Chapter 9. Discussion, Conclusions, and Policy Suggestions
Discussion
Sex-for-Crack Pregnancies and Their Outcomes
Awareness of Risk
Child Loss and Custody Issues
Crack Use, Motherhood, and Opportunity Structure
Life Quality of Sex-for-Crack Children
Discussion of Related Issues
Social Structure and the Legacy of Social Change
Crack and Gender Roles
Policy Suggestions
Conclusions
Chapter 10. Method Notes
Overview
Background and Project Sequence
Project-Participant Profile
Screening and Sampling Processes
Ethnography
Human Subjects’ Concerns
Data Analysis
Glossary
References
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.10.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7890-2457-8 / 0789024578 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7890-2457-2 / 9780789024572 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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