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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Law enforcement practices that oversurveil and underprotect poor communities of color deputize women to keep men “out of trouble” while failing to support women’s safety. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no. They must be radically remade. 2 (2012): 216–43.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. The rules governing the attraction of wealth to wealth are not laws of nature, nor are they immutable. US capitalism was built on the backs of enslaved people and the slave economy.