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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.
Centering around a black social movement that W.E.B. DuBois started
in 1905, this book is a case study that focuses on the Niagara
Movement in order to analyze the patriarchy, sexism, and socially
constructed gender ideology that formulates black social movements
past and present. This book offers an in-depth study of the
exclusion of black women from the Niagara Movement, focusing
especially on how black womens exclusion shaped the Movement. I
argue that by applying black feminist theory to the theoretical
foundation of the Niagara Movement, it can be reconfigured to
reflect the needs of the collective U.S. black community and thus
serve as a template for present and future black social movements.
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.
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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