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She ain't no mammy: African American midwives' utilization of Ma'at in the preservation and continuation of African epistemology
… in the United States to the present day. These midwives were gatekeepers of a rich cultural tradition grounded in an African matriarchal episteme. There is a long history of debasement of the African women’s body built on a false racial hierarchy where Black women were at the bottom, the lowest …