ISBN:
9781496827937
,
9781496827906
,
1496827902
,
9781496827913
,
1496827910
,
9781496827920
,
1496827929
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 273 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Till death do us part
Keywords:
Cemeteries History
;
Burial
;
Segregation History
;
Minorities Social conditions
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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