Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung,
Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and
Martina Will de Chaparro Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic
Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most
Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in
race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks what a deeper
exploration of that phenomenon can tell us about American history
more broadly. Comparative in scope, and regionally diverse,
chapters look to immigrants, communities of color, the colonized,
the enslaved, rich and poor, and religious minorities as they
buried kith and kin in locales spanning the Northeast to the
Spanish American Southwest. Whether African Americans, Muslim or
Christian Arabs, Indians, mestizos, Chinese, Jews, Poles,
Catholics, Protestants, or various whites of European descent, one
thing that united these Americans was a drive to keep their dead
apart. At times, they did so for internal preference. At others, it
was a function of external prejudice. Invisible and institutional
borders built around and into ethnic cemeteries also tell a
powerful story of the ways in which Americans have negotiated race,
culture, class, national origin, and religious difference in the
United States during its formative centuries.
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