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100 Black Women of Funeral Service Aberration of the Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era 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 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 “Afro-American Gravemarkers in North Carolina” by M. Ruth Little (Markers “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 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 Black Female Undertakers in 20th -Century Baltimore by Kami Fletcher Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011: She Bites Back 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 Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors “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 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 Death and the American South Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth Century America Death in Black and White: Death Ritual and Family Ecology Death and Dying in New Mexico Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures Death and the Idea of Mexico Death & the Maiden Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 Departures (2008)Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife End Game (2018) Ethnicity and the American Cemetery “Exhuming Women’s Premarket Duties in the Care of the Dead” by Georganne Rundblad (Gender and Society 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 RotondaroGore Capitalism Grave Diggers & Body Washers – Great Women in Death History by Sarah ChavezHarlem Book of the Dead Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia Hiroshima Holy Spirits: The Power and Legacy of America’s Female Spiritualists by Dianca London PottsHorror Noire Syllabus “ ‘I Never Regretted Coming to Africa’: The Story of Harriet Ruggles Loomis’ Gravestone” by Laurel Gabel (Markers “Imagining Queer Life After Death” (A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , 2018)In the Wake: On Blackness and Being “James C. Thomas, Undertaker and Business Man” (chapter 11) in The Negro in Business Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty Lay Down Body: Living History in African American Cemeteries LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice “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 Men We Reaped Miss Evers Boys (1997)Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies Motherhood on the Battlefield of Death by Sarah ChavezMy Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die “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 Not Just the Funeral: Queen Sugar Puts the African American Burial Tradition on Full Display by Kami FletcherNYC 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 Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, a Memorial “Paying Your Respects: Transgender Women and Detransitioning After Death” by Karol Kovalovich Weaver (Death Studies , 2018)Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West Queer Death Studies Network Queer Necropolitics “Queer Widowhood” by Nina Lykke (Lambda Nordica , 2015)Race & the Funeral Profession: What Jessica Mitford Missed by Kami FletcherRadical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America “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 Resting Place (1986)Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective 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 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 Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women Taryn Simon: An Occupation of Loss The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story The Aztec Women Who Became Goddesses After Dying During Childbirth by Alejandro LópezThe Best Man Holiday (2013) The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosina, Croatia and Kosovo The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 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 The Disappearance of a Distinctly Black Way to Mourn Tiffany StanleyThe Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies The Famished Road 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 The Impossibility of Religious Freedom “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 “The Plantation Community Cemetery: Reading Black and White Relationships in the Landscape” by Stacey Graham (Markers The Politics of Mourning: Death and Horror in Arlington National Cemetery The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death “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 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 “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 Women in Funeral Service Women and the Material Culture of Death “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 MarcusLike this: Like Loading...
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