Cemetery Citizens Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizen...

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Main Author: Rosenblatt, Adam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Redwood City Stanford University Press 2024
Edition:1
Subjects:
African American history
Burial grounds
Cemeteries
Cemeteries-Conservation and restoration-United States
Cemeteries-Social aspects-United States
Cultural heritage
Descendant communities
Poetic inquiry
Preservation
Public history
Public space
Racial justice
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
Social justice
Social justice-United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Volunteer workers in cemeteries-United States
Racial justice
African American history
Public space
Descendant communities
Preservation
Public history
Cultural heritage
Poetic inquiry
Burial grounds
ISBN:9781503639126, 1503639126, 1503639118, 9781503639119
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Beauty in Dirt -- Introduction: The Dead and Their Emergencies -- Part I. The Fields Full of Weeds -- One. "When Summer Comes Again, the Cemetery Disappears": Geer -- Two. "The Contrast in the Care and Keeping of Our Cemeteries": East End -- Three. "The Largest, Most Beautiful, and Popular of All Our Cemeteries": Mount Moriah -- A House That's Gone Now: Poems -- Part II. Revisions ("It Will Never End, That Work") -- Four. Pathways to Revision -- Five. Revising How We Belong -- Six. Revising Public Space -- Conclusion. Fields of Weeds, Fields of Care -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Two “The Contrast in the Care and Keeping of Our Cemeteries” East End --
  • Six Revising Public Space --
  • Beauty in Dirt --
  • CONTENTS --
  • Four Pathways to Revision --
  • Index
  • Five Revising How We Belong --
  • Part II Revisions (“It Will Never End, That Work”) --
  • Three “The Largest, Most Beautiful, and Popular of All Our Cemeteries” Mount Moriah --
  • List of Illustrations --
  • A House T hat’s Gone Now. Poems --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Part I The Fields Full of Weeds --
  • Notes --
  • Introduction --
  • One “When Summer Comes Again, the Cemetery Disappears” Geer --
  • Bibliography --
  • Conclusion. Fields of Weeds, Fields of Care --