Passed on: African American Mourning Stories
A Memorial
by Karla FC Holloway
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"Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a part of black identity as ways of living.
Gracefully interweaving interviews, archival research, and analyses of literature, film, and music, Holloway shows how the vulnerability of African Americans to untimely death is inextricably linked to how black culture represents itself and is represented."--BOOK JACKET.
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Funeral customs and rites, Death, Afro-américain, Coutume funéraire, Pompes funèbres, Mort, 20e siècle, African Americans, Funeral rites and ceremonies, African americans, social life and customs, Death, social aspects, African americans, biography, African americans--funeral customs and rites, African americans--death, African continental ancestry group, Gt3203 .h65 2002, 393/.089/96073Places
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Passed on: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)
October 2003, Duke University Press
Paperback
in English
0822332450 9780822332459
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Passed on: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial
February 2002, Duke University Press
Hardcover
in English
0822328607 9780822328605
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"Quiet as it's kept, if the question "Who's got the body?" had been asked very early in the twentieth century, the answer could have been white folk."
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