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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The Mammy archetype is the image of an unattractive Black mother who is strong and content in her caregiving role for many children in the service of White slave owners or White employers. She is ambitious and has her mind set on parlaying her law degree into a White House career. 31 I hope you caught that.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They clothe themselves and their children according to the correctional dress code, submitting to searches of their bodies and belongings and myriad forms of intimate regulation and humiliation. Finally, we can create a partial estimate of the impacts of these burdens on women’s health. Of this figure, roughly $73.9