Chaney Allen - Im Black and Im Sober: The Timeless Story Of A Womans Journey Back To Sanity
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This is the first autobiography written by a recovering African American woman. The author discusses the impact of discrimination and the obstacles African Americans face as they become sober.
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I'm Black and I'm Sober : The Timeless Story of a Woman's Journey Back to Sanity
author
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Allen, Chaney.
publisher
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Hazelden Publishing
isbn10 | asin
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1568380712
print isbn13
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9781568380711
ebook isbn13
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9780585300160
language
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English
subject
Allen, Chaney, Women alcoholics--United States--Biography, African American women--Alcohol use, Women alcoholics--Rehabilitation--United States--Biography.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
HV5232.A54A34 1995eb
ddc
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362.29/2/092
subject
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Allen, Chaney, Women alcoholics--United States--Biography, African American women--Alcohol use, Women alcoholics--Rehabilitation--United States--Biography.
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I'm Black and I'm Sober
The Timeless Story of a Woman's Journey Back to Sanity
Chaney Allen
With a Foreword by Kattie Portis, B.A., M.E.D.
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Hazelden Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176
1976, 1978 by Chaney L. Allen and Edward L. Mayfield All rights reserved. First published 1976 by the author as I'm Black and I'm Drunk. Second Edition published 1978 by CompCare Publishers as I'm Black and I'm Sober. First published by Hazelden Foundation 1995. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher
Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data Allen, Chaney. I'm black and I'm sober : the timeless story of a woman's journey back to sanity / by Chaney Allen. 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN: 1-56838-071-2 1. Allen, Chaney. 2. Women alcoholicsUnited StatesBiography. 3. Afro-American womenAlcohol use. 4. Women alcoholics RehabilitationUnited StatesBiography. 1. Title. HV5232.A54A34 1995 94-48160 362.29'2'092dc20 CIP [B]
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This book is dedicated to my oldest brother, Nelson B. Allen, who was there when I needed him most.
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CONTENTS
Dedication
v
Foreword
ix
About the Author
xiii
Author's Note
xv
Acknowledgments
xix
More Acknowledgments
xxi
Part One Hunger, God, and Growing Up Peanuts for the Preacher's Kids
1
Part Two Glittering Lights to Blackouts Weekend Drinking
51
Part Three Pouring My Own Troubles Saving Up, Drinking Down
79
Part Four The Long Way Back My Own Skid Row to Sobriety
163
Part Five Recovery Helping Others like Me
199
Index
257
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FOREWORD
I can see myself when I read Chaney Allen's story. Her history of growing tip during the Depression raises issues and feelings that Black folk would rather not think about. I was born in the 1940s and grew up in rural Alabama, in a family of sharecropper farmers. I came from a family of seven siblings, with three sisters and three brothers. I was babysitting my younger sibling by the time I was six years old, while the rest of the family worked in the field. Sharecroppers didn't get paid every week; we got paid at the end of the year. During the course of a year we'd run a tab at the White man's general store. When it was time to settle up, we'd always owe more than we got paid.
We lived in a two-room shack, and I didn't know but one neighbor who had electricity. We raised chickens and pigs, and made jellies and jams. Picking and fixing plums and berries turned into somewhat of a social event for the adults and a fun time for the children. Poverty was real, but my mother was very resourceful. We wore hand-me-downs from the White folks. My mother made us clothes from baking flour sacks. We couldn't afford a sewing machine, so she made dresses, blouses, shirts, and quilts by hand. My mother also sold moonshine whiskey; so did a few of the other women who had children to feed. I had my first drink at the tender age of eight. I didn't like it at all.
Like Chaney Allen, I was the feisty one in my family. One of my cousins taught me to read at the age of five. She used newspapers and magazines discarded by the White folk. That cousin moved back to Mississippi when I was eight, and I became the person who wrote letters for all the adults who couldn't read or write. Since our shack sat right by the road, all the neighbors' mail was delivered to our box. Every evening everyone came to get their mail, and my job was to
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read their letters and respond in writing. By the time I was ten years old, I was looking for a way out.
We were taught things in school, once all the White man's cotton was picked. We were also members of the Pine Grove Baptist Church. With all the teaching and preaching in there, nobody ever sat down and taught me about sex. We learned that fornication, having sex without being married, meant that we were doomed to go to hell. But we were also taught that we were special to God; because we were poor and mistreated by the White folk, we were going to receive our reward in Heaven.
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