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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Qualitative research suggests that female family members provide extensive case management, mental health care, housing, job searches, and transportation assistance on behalf of their incarcerated and reentering loved ones, as well as laboring to keep them out of trouble with police and parole officers. 71, 75, 88–96. 2 (2012): 216–43.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. Ethic of Caring and Personal Accountability. The ethic of caring situates empathy, emotion, and personal expression as central to knowing. The spirit of care and leadership matter.

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