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Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical
markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about
the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold
keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of
interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to
interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of
racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through
the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries
throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the
importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for
examining power relations, community formation, and historical
memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists,
and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial
segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about
how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and
reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a
learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work
of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to
their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for
both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the
novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries
for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic
landscape, and identity politics.
Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical
markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about
the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold
keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of
interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.
Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to
interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of
racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through
the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries
throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth
through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the
importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for
examining power relations, community formation, and historical
memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists,
and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial
segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about
how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and
reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a
learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work
of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to
their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for
both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the
novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries
for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic
landscape, and identity politics.
These case studies explore how competing interests among the
keepers of a community's heritage shape how that community both
regards itself and reveals itself to others. As editors Celeste Ray
and Luke Eric Lassiter note in their introduction, such
stakeholders are no longer just of the community itself, but are
now often ""outsiders""--tourists, the mass media, and even
anthropologists and folklorists. The setting of each study is a
different marginalized community in the South. Arranged around
three themes that have often surfaced in debates about public
folklore and anthropology over the last two decades, the studies
consider issues of representation, identity, and practice. One
study of representation discusses how Appalachian Pentecostal
serpent handlers try to reconcile their exotic popular image with
their personal religious beliefs. A case study on identity tells
why a segment of the Cajun population has appropriated the term
""coonass,"" once widely considered derogatory. Essays on practice
look at an Appalachian Virginia coal town and Snee Farm, a National
Heritage Site in lowland South Carolina. Both pieces reveal how
dynamic and contradictory views of community life can be silenced
in favor of producing a more easily consumable vision of a
""past."" Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners offers
challenging new insights into some of the roles that the media,
tourism, and charismatic community members can play when a
community compromises its heritage or even denies it.
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