- 100 Black Women of Funeral Service
- 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)
- 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 & the Maiden
- 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
- End Game (2018)
- 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)
- Extremis (2016)
- “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
- Horror Noire Syllabus
- “ ‘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)
- “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
- NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
- “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 Death Studies Network
- 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
- Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018)
- “ ‘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
- 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 Best Man Holiday (2013)
- 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 (2017)
- 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 Naked Truth: Death by Delivery
- “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
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)
- 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)
- Truth and Lies: Jonestown – Paradise Lost (2018)
- “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 in Funeral Service
- 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
The Collective for Radical Death Studies