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Till Death Do Us Part : American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed /

"A comprehensive study of how burial customs highlight social status and class"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fletcher, Kami (Editor ), Amanik, Allan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "A beautiful garden consecrated to the Lord": marriage, death, and local construction of citizenship in New York's nineteenth-century Jewish rural cemeteries / Allan Amanik
  • "Death is not a wedding": the cemetery as a Polish American communal experience / James S. Pula
  • An ocean apart: Chinese American segregated burials / Sue Fawn Chung
  • Founding Baltimore's Mount Auburn cemetery and its importance to understanding African American burial rights / Kami Fletcher
  • Till death keeps us apart: segregated cemeteries and social values in St. Louis, Missouri / Jeffrey E. Smith
  • "For internment of white people only": cemetery superintendents' authority and the wealthy white protestant lawn-park cemetery, 1886-1920 / Kelly B. Arehart
  • "In the grave we are all equal": Northern New Mexico burial grounds in the nineteenth century / Martina Will de Chaparro
  • Arab American burial patterns / Rosina Hassoun
  • List of contributors
  • Index.