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For daughters with a strained maternal relationship, this is language, validation, and a community that sees you. Unmothered by Black Mothers is the foundation, and the resources here are designed to walk beside you on your healing journey.
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For scholars and organizations committed to doing the work with rigor and cultural depth. Whether you're deciding what comes after the research, or looking to better serve unmothered daughters, we provide strategic direction and resources that make scholarship something the world can use.
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Nobody was studying this. Until now.
Some Black daughters are detached from their mothers and yet, it is an experience that has never been examined in Black family life. Black daughters have been navigating their mommy issues without language and without validation. Unmothered by Black Mothers is the first of its kind. Rooted in qualitative research and told through the voices of seventeen Black daughters, this book holds the history, the research, the theology, and the humanity of this experience together.

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About Steele Compass
Grounded in research. Rooted in purpose.
Dr. Imani S. Steele brings Fortune 500 brand strategy experience, academic research expertise, and the lived wisdom of someone who has done the work, personally and professionally. Steele Compass exists because strategy should be grounded, not guesswork, and the daughters, business owners, and scholars who need it most deserve access to the kind of thinking that actually moves the needle.
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