| Description |
1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- About the Cover -- Introduction -- Disentangling the Findings: What We Think We Know About Black Children of Incarcerated Parents? -- Grounding This Work -- Our Research Study -- Why Is This Important? -- How Is This a Social Revolution? -- What Is Speaking Truth to Power? -- Summary of Social Revolution -- References -- Part 1 Truth and Reconciliation: Confidence in My Black Skin -- 1 What's in a Name? |
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Reference -- 2 Unlearn to Relearn -- I Had to Unlearn My Detachment to Relearn My Identity -- I Had to Unlearn Calling Him By His First Name to Relearn Calling Him "Daddy" Again -- I Had to Unlearn My Lifestyle Under the Guidance of a Single Mother to Relearn Taking Orders From My Father -- I Had to Unlearn this Credence of Being Unloved to Relearn Feeling Loved -- I Had to Unlearn My Mother's Perception to Relearn Being Daddy's Little Girl -- I Had to Unlearn the Routine of Seeing My Father Regularly to Relearn Not Seeing Him at All -- I Had to Unlearn Caring to Relearn Apathy |
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I Had to Unlearn My "Genetic" Anger to Relearn Self-Control -- I Had to Unlearn Familiarity to Relearn Appreciation. -- I Had to Unlearn My Perception of this Amiable Man to Relearn the Perception of the Man I Was Told About as a Child -- I Had to Unlearn Silence to Relearn Conversing -- 3 Am I My Mother's Keeper? -- Yearning for My Mother -- Sacrifice and Resentment -- Healing -- 4 Roots, Residue, and Results -- Roots -- Residue -- Results -- 5 Dad's "In" Dad's "Out" Part I: The Ebb and Flow of Childhood With an Incarcerated Parent -- Different From Family Yet Different From Peers |
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Elementary School's Current Events ... Dad's "In" -- Surprise Dad's "Out" -- Dad's Out: Swole for Dinner -- 6 Dad's "In" Dad's "Out" Part II: Truth and Trajectory From an Academic and Military Veteran -- Christmas Crack Dad's "Out" -- Dad's "In" -- Military and Becoming a Parent Myself -- Getting My Ph.D. and Making Them Proud -- Current Day -- 7 Ciera's New Story -- The Old Story -- Seeing Past the Pain -- The New Story Emerges -- Part 2 Reclaiming Black Wellness: Every Revolution Has to Begin Somewhere -- 8 Lock and Key: A Story About My Dad and Me -- What Impact Has Dad Being in Jail Had On Me? |
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What Do You Notice? -- 9 A Journey Through Abandonment and Abuse to Acceptance -- 10 My Healing Journey -- 11 The Journey of a Butterfly -- 12 Loving Me, Unapologetically -- References -- Part 3 The Renaissance of Self-Expression: Creativity, Innovation, and Culture -- 13 The Masquerade Ball -- The Masquerade Ball -- The Grand Ballroom Entrance -- Intermission -- Farewell -- The Last Dance -- 14 The Seed of Hope: "Maybe You'll Go Away for College" -- Introduction -- Spoken Word -- References -- 15 In Memory of You, Dad -- References -- 16 Now You See Him, Now You Don't |
| Summary |
This book centers directly impacted Black children who have lived through parental incarceration. Their stories are told from holistic perspectives incorporating the full range of collateral consequences |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Beginning (Elementary School Age) |
| Subject |
Children of prisoners -- United States -- Anecdotes
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African American children -- Anecdotes
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Mass incarceration -- Social aspects -- United States
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African American children
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Children of prisoners
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muhammad, Bahiyyah Miallah
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Turner, Sydni Myat
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| ISBN |
9781000981995 |
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1000981991 |
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