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Intersectionality Matters: Black Women, Labor, and Households in Black Suburbia

Orly Clergé
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (1) 86-103; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.1.04
Orly Clergé
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