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Combined Graph record U-00806 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0405. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Jessica Dixon Weaver, 'African-American Grandmothers: Does the Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply?', Journal of Law & Policy (Washington University) Vol. 37:153 (fetched in full): 'African-American families have typically been governed by the matriarch, or in more familiar terms, "big mama"—the person who was the most stable, economically reliable, and self-sufficient member of the family... the person that took on the responsibility of keeping the family together at all costs' (citing E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States, 1966); 'among black families, the oldest women are typically regarded as the head of the family.'
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Jessica Dixon Weaver, 'African-American Grandmothers: Does the Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply?', Journal of Law & Policy (Washington University) Vol. 37:153 (fetched in full): 'African-American families have typically been governed by the matriarch, or in more familiar terms, "big mama"—the person who was the most stable, economically reliable, and self-sufficient member of the family... the person that took on the responsibility of keeping the family together at all costs' (citing E.
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Jessica Dixon Weaver, 'African-American Grandmothers: Does the Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply?', Journal of Law & Policy (Washington University) Vol. 37:153 (fetched in full): 'African-American families have typically been governed by the matriarch, or in more familiar terms, "big mama"—the person who was the most stable, economically reliable, and self-sufficient member of the family... the person that took on the responsibility of keeping the family together at all costs' (citing E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States, 1966); 'among black families, the oldest women are typically regarded as the head of the family.'
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