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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

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Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children

Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

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