Aberration of the Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era by Diane Sommerville
African American Burial Ground Network Act Introduced in Congress by Preservation Maryland (www.preservationmaryland.org, February 28, 2019)
African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940: The Funeral Industry and the Story of R.C. Scott by Michael Plater
African American Funeral Programs from the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library-System
“African Americans in Bereavement: Grief as a Function of Ethnicity” by Anne Laurie and Robert Neimeyer (Omega, 2008)
“Afro-American Gravemarkers in North Carolina” by M. Ruth Little (Markers, 1989)
“Agents and Objects of Death: Gay Murder, Boyfriend Twins, and Queer of Color Negativity” by Bobby Benedicto (A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)
“An American Death in Bangkok: The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand” (A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1999)
“And Die in Dixie: Funerals, Death & Heaven in the Slave Community 1700-1865” by David Roediger (The Massachusetts Review, 1981)
“Angels in America” by Tony Kushner (stage play)
Angels in America (2003)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bennie Smith: Delmarva Black Businessman of the Year & CEO of Bennie Smith Funeral Homes (Delmarva African American Pride Magazine, Fall 2011).
“Black AfterLives Matter: Cultivating Kinfulness as Reproductive Justice” by Ruha Benjamin (within Making Kin Not Population edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway)
Black Female Undertakers in 20th-Century Baltimore by Kami Fletcher
Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011: She Bites Back by Kendra Parker
Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown by Sikivu Hutchinson
Burning the Devil in Guatemala by Kate Newman (National Geographic, December 4, 2012)
bury it by Sam Sax
Cemeteries & Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture by Richard Meyer (editor)
Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors by Sue Chung and Priscilla Wegars
“Chinese Graves and Gravemarkers in Hong Kong” by Chun-shing Chow and Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather (Markers, 1998)
Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930
“Composantos: Sacred Places of the Southwest” by Laura Sanborn (Markers, 1989)
Dance of Life to Honor Death by Joan Chatfield-Taylor (New York Times, February 22, 2004)
Dayveon (2017)
Death and the Afterlife in African Culture by Kwasi Wiredu (within Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I edited by Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye)
Death and the American South by Craig Thompson and Lorri Glover (editors)
Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth Century America by Sheri Weinstein and Elizabeth Dill
Death in Black and White: Death Ritual and Family Ecology by Charlton McIlwain
Death and Dying in New Mexico by Martina Will de Chaparro
Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures by Richard Kalish (editor)
Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claudio Lomnitz
Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 by Erik Seeman
Departures (2008)
Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt
Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife by Candi Cann
"Elegies for Paradise Alley" by Robert Hayden
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery by Richard Meyer (editor)
“Exhuming Women’s Premarket Duties in the Care of the Dead” by Georganne Rundblad (Gender and Society, 1995)
Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California by Deborah Miranda (A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2010)
“Falling Seeds Take Root: Ritualizing Chinese American Identity Through Funerals” by Juwen Zhang (dissertation)
Feminist Death Work: A History by Kami Fletcher
For the Forgotten African-American Dead: Neglected Black Cemeteries Deserve the Same Level of Care that Their Confederate Counterparts Get by Brian Palmer (New York Times, January 7, 2017)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Funeral Divas: How Women are Returning to the Death Care Industry in Droves by Vinnie Rotondaro
Gore Capitalism by Valencia Sayak
Grave Diggers & Body Washers – Great Women in Death History by Sarah Chavez
Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee
Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia by Lynn Rainville
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Holy Spirits: The Power and Legacy of America’s Female Spiritualists by Dianca London Potts
“ ‘I Never Regretted Coming to Africa’: The Story of Harriet Ruggles Loomis’ Gravestone” by Laurel Gabel (Markers, 1999)
“Imagining Queer Life After Death” (A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2018)
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
“James C. Thomas, Undertaker and Business Man” (chapter 11) in The Negro in Business by Booker T. Washington
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Lay Down Body: Living History in African American Cemeteries by Roberta Hughes Wright and Wilbur B. Hughes III
LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice by Kimberly Acquaviva
“Life’s Quiet Companion” by Greg Lehman (within The Penguin Book of Death edited by Gabrielle Carey and Rosemary Sorenson)
Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves by China Galland
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Miss Evers Boys (1997)
Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America by Donald Joralemon
Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies by Zygmundt Bauman
Motherhood on the Battlefield of Death by Sarah Chavez
My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die by Kevin Toolis
“Nine Night” by Natasha Gordon (stage play)
“Myths Laid to Rest: Death, Burial, and Memory in the American South” by Kristen Burton (dissertation)
Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway
“Negotiations of Individual and Community Identity: A Study of Chinese-Canadian Mortuary Material Culture in Vancouver and Victoria, 1900-1960” by Ani Chenier (thesis)
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home by Sheri Booker
Not Just the Funeral: Queen Sugar Puts the African American Burial Tradition on Full Display by Kami Fletcher
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Racial Segregation in American Cemeteries” by Angelika Krüger-Kahloula (within History and Memory in African-American Culture edited by Geneviève Fabre and Robert O’Meally)
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, a Memorial by Karla Holloway
“Paying Your Respects: Transgender Women and Detransitioning After Death” by Karol Kovalovich Weaver (Death Studies, 2018)
Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West by Annette Stott
Queer Necropolitics by Jin Haritaworn and Adi Kuntsman (co-editors)
“Queer Widowhood” by Nina Lykke (Lambda Nordica, 2015)
Race & the Funeral Profession: What Jessica Mitford Missed by Kami Fletcher
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude
“Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journey’s Into the Enterprise of Death, 1870-1920” by Kami Fletcher (Thanatological Studies, 2014)
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Resting Place (1986)
Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective by Peter Stearns
“ ‘Sealing the Bond’: A Qualitative Study of African American Funeral Rituals” by Danielle (Grant) Graham (dissertation)
“Separated by Death and Color: The African American Cemetery of New Philadelphia, Illinois” by Charlotte King (Historical Archaeology, 2010)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
“Sinister Wisdom 80: Willing Up and Keeling Over, A Lesbian Handbook on Death Rights and Rituals”
“Sinister Wisdom 68/69: Death, Grief and Surviving” by Judith K. Witherow and Sue Lenaerts
Stealing from the Dead: Scientists, Settlers, and Indian Burial Sites in Early-Nineteenth-Century Oregon” by Wendi A. Lindquist (Oregon Historical Society, 2014)
Taking Care of Business: Canadian Community Mausoleums and the Commercialization of Death, 1912-1936” by Dorothy Smith (Markers, 2015)
Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg
Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryan
Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss by Taryn Simon
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
The Aztec Women Who Became Goddesses After Dying During Childbirth by Alejandro López
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosina, Croatia and Kosovo by Clea Koff
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lord
“The Changing Perceptions of Death and Burial: A Look at the Nigerian Obituaries” by Stella Ogbuagu (Anthropologica, 1989)
The Death Care Industry: African American Cemeteries and Funeral Homes by Roberta Hughes Wright and Wilbur Hughes III
The Disappearance of a Distinctly Black Way to Mourn Tiffany Stanley
The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies by S.C. Humphreys
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
The First Decoration Day by David Blight Newark Star Ledger (April 27, 2015)
The Green Mile (1999)
The Hate You Give (2018)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
“The Living Dead: Art and Immortality Among the Yoruba of Nigeria” (Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 1977)
The Long Goodbye: Why Funerals are Big Deals in Ghana by Paula Newton, CNN (March 11, 2014)
The Mapping of Massacres by Ceridwen Dovey (The New Yorker, December 6, 2017)
“The Negro Undertaker” (chapter 10) in The Negro in Business by Booker T. Washington
“The Plantation Community Cemetery: Reading Black and White Relationships in the Landscape” by Stacey Graham (Markers, 2015)
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Horror in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya
The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America by Terri Snyder
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Vincent Brown
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne Smith
“Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Bereavement (TGNC): A Case Study on Complicated Grief Experienced and the Effect of Partner Suicide on Interpersonal Relationships and Subsequent Partnerships of the Bereaved” (Death Studies, 2019) by Rachael Nolan
“Tributes in Stone and Lapidary Lapses: Commemorating Black People in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century America” by Angelika Krüger-Kahloula (Markers, 1989)
“Up From the Grave: A Sociological Reconstruction of an African American Community from Cemetery Data in the Rural Midwest” by Gary Foster and Craig Eckert (Journal of Black Studies, 2003)
We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
“What Lies Beneath: Reading the Cultural Landscape of Graveyard and Burial Grounds in African-American History and Literature” by Deborah Lafayette Henderson (dissertation)
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
Women and the Material Culture of Death by Maureen Daly Groggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin (editors)
“Women’s Deathbeath Pulpits: From Quiet Congregants to Iconic Ministers” by Lisa Shaver (Rhetoric Review, 1995)
Women’s Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figure-Making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors by Joyce Marcus