- 100 Black Women of Funeral Service
- 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)
- “And Die in Dixie: Funerals, Death & Heaven in the Slave Community 1700-1865” by David Roediger (The Massachusetts Review, 1981)
- 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
- 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 in Black and White: Death Ritual and Family Ecology by Charlton McIlwain
- Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures by Richard Kalish (editor)
- Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 by Erik Seeman
- 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)
- Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee
- Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia by Lynn Rainville
- 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)
- 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
- Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves by China Galland
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- Miss Evers Boys (1997)
- “Nine Night” by Natasha Gordon (stage play)
- “Myths Laid to Rest: Death, Burial, and Memory in the American South” by Kristen Burton (dissertation)
- 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
- “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
- Race & the Funeral Profession: What Jessica Mitford Missed by Kami Fletcher
- “Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journey’s Into the Enterprise of Death, 1870-1920” by Kami Fletcher (Thanatological Studies, 2014)
- Resting Place (1986)
- 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
- Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryan
- 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 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 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 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 Cemeteryby 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
- “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
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