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Hardback. New. In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. Here is their story.
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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death Tapa dura - 2010
de Suzanne E. Smith
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From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "homegoing" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the local white power structure. Most important, their financial freedom gave them the ability to support the struggle for civil rights and, indeed, to serve the living as well as bury the dead. During the Jim Crow era, black funeral directors relied on racial segregation to secure their foothold in America's capitalist marketplace. With the dawning of the civil rights age, these entrepreneurs were drawn into the movement to integrate American society, but were also uncertain how racial integration would affect their business success. From the beginning, this tension between personal gain and community service shaped the history of African American funeral directing. For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just occasions to mourn. In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long--and often violent--struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. "To Serve the Living" offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom. Suzanne E. Smith is Associate Professor of History, George Mason University.
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- Título To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
- Autor Suzanne E. Smith
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 288
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Fecha de publicación 2010-02-25
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780674036215 / 0674036212
- Peso 1.01 libras (0.46 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.5 x 5.52 x 0.99 pulgadas (21.59 x 14.02 x 2.51 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social life and customs, United States - Social life and customs
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009035231
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.750
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- Choice, 12/01/2010, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2010, Page 86
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