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    "Step on a Crack, Break Your Mother's Back": Poor Moms, Myths of Authority, and Drug-Related Evictions from Public Housing

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    Austin, Regina
    
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    Once upon a time, the old superstition "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" turned many of my walks down city streets into a game. What else could cracks have referred to but the lines and crevices in the pavement? Of course, it did not much matter, since little depended on it. I knew that my mama's well-being did not rise or fall with my physical agility. It would have been crazy to think otherwise. Yet, when I remembered and the spirit moved me, I did try to avoid the cracks on the assumption that it couldn't hurt to show a little extra concern and respect for mom now and then. There were, of course, children who deliberately and defiantly walked on cracks as a way of defying fate.
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