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(listed alphabetically and not order of importance) includes textbooks, thesis/dissertation, graphic-novels, poetry books, stage plays
Aberration of the Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner (stage play) African American Entrepreneurship in Richmond, 1890-1940: The Funeral Industry and the Story of R.C. Scott Beloved Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011: She Bites Back Cemeteries & Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors 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 in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife Ethnicity and the American Cemetery “Falling Seeds Take Root: Ritualizing Chinese American Identity Through Funerals” by Juwen Zhang (dissertation)Gore Capitalism Harlem Book of the Dead Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia Hiroshima In the Wake: On Blackness and Being 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 Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves Men We Reaped Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die “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 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 Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, a Memorial Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West Queer Necropolitics Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Regarding the Pain of Others Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective “ ‘Sealing the Bond’: A Qualitative Study of African American Funeral Rituals” by Danielle (Grant) Graham (dissertation)Sing, Unburied, Sing 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 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 Death Care Industry: African American Cemeteries and Funeral Homes The Family, Women and Death: Comparative Studies The Famished Road The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Impossibility of Religious Freedom 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 To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death 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 and the Material Culture of Death Women’s Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figure-Making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors by Joyce MarcusEssays / Chapters / Blogs (listed alphabetically and not in order of importance)
Journal Articles
(listed alphabetically and not in order of importance)
“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 , 2019) “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)“Chinese Graves and Gravemarkers in Hong Kong” by Chun-shing Chow and Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather (Markers , 1998) “Composantos: Sacred Places of the Southwest” by Laura Sanborn (Markers “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)“ ‘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)“ ‘Ours is a Business of Loyalty’: African American Funeral Home Owners in Southern Cities” by Beverly Bunch-Lyons (The Southern Quarterly , 2015)“Paying Your Respects: Transgender Women and Detransitioning After Death” by Karol Kovalovich Weaver (Death Studies , 2018)“Queer Widowhood” by Nina Lykke (Lambda Nordica , 2015)“Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journey’s Into the Enterprise of Death, 1870-1920” by Kami Fletcher (Thanatological Studies , 2014)“Separated by Death and Color: The African American Cemetery of New Philadelphia, Illinois” by Charlotte King (Historical Archaeology, 2010)Taking Care of Business: Canadian Community Mausoleums and the Commercialization of Death, 1912-1936” by Dorothy Smith (Markers “The Changing Perceptions of Death and Burial: A Look at the Nigerian Obituaries” by Stella Ogbuagu (Anthropologica , 1989) “The Living Dead: Art and Immortality Among the Yoruba of Nigeria” (Africa: Journal of the International African Institute , 1977)“The Plantation Community Cemetery: Reading Black and White Relationships in the Landscape” by Stacey Graham (Markers “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 “Women’s Deathbeath Pulpits: From Quiet Congregants to Iconic Ministers” by Lisa Shaver (Rhetoric Review , 1995)“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)Videos
(listed alphabetically and not in order of importance)
Websites / Databases
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News / Magazine Articles
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African American Burial Ground Network Act Introduced in Congress by Preservation Maryland (www.preservationmaryland.org , February 28, 2019)Bennie Smith: Delmarva Black Businessman of the Year & CEO of Bennie Smith Funeral Homes (Delmarva African American Pride Magazine , Fall 2011).Burning the Devil in Guatemala by Kate Newman (National Geographic , December 4, 2012)Dance of Life to Honor Death by Joan Chatfield-Taylor (New York Times, February 22, 2004)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)The First Decoration Day by David Blight Newark Star Ledger (April 27, 2015)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)Like this: Like Loading...
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