Behind the Eight Ball

ISBN: 9780789024565

出版社: Haworth Pr Inc

出版年: 2005-10

页数: 224

定价: $ 131.08

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Behind the Eight Ball documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening disparity between social and economic classes. In their own words, poor black women - nameless, faceless and marginalized by poverty - share 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 socio-economic changes in inner city neighbourhoods 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.