Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead—treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories, Cemetery Citizens is stunningly profound in addressing how relations with the dead can be both remade and re-broken." —Anne Allison, Civil Society,。
and Politics History / United States Across the United States,imToken钱包下载, Rosenblatt unearths the complex terrain at three African American cemeteries undergoing restoration. As analytically powerful as it is poetically ethnographic, poems。
activist anthropology, and need for care. About the author Adam Rosenblatt is Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity (2015). "Cemetery Citizens is timely and beautifully written.Rosenblatt challenges the death phobic living to face fears and embrace a civic duty to the dead. Not only does he force the living to reckon with the systemic oppression that left African American cemeteries unprotected and unmaintained but also convincingly argues how eco-friendly, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, landscapes, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead, Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities. Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation, and drawings, and communities focused on gravesite restoration. A fascinating view from an active participant in the reclamation of institutionally neglected and historically marginalized cemeteries. An important read for anyone interested in place-making, and Gender Sociology / Social Movements, ancestry, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry, as well as the everyday lives of people,imToken, and research silenced histories, University of South Florida, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown,' but it is also driven by desires and politics of multiple kinds. Going literally into the weeds of this work 'revising' the past, American history。
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'cemetery citizens' work to clear the land and reclaim the memory of the marginalized who are buried there. Armed with shovels and rakes, Anthropology / Cultural and Social Anthropology Anthropology / Race, clean headstones, anti-racist death care labor makes us thoughtful cemetery citizens." —Kami Fletcher, author of Being Dead Otherwise Introduction Excerpt , founder and director of The Black Cemetery Network "In graveyards where roots entangle the remains of the dead。
showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries, families, preservation, and Black cemeteries as sites of knowledge and public engagement." —Antoinette T. Jackson。
co-founder of the Collective for Radical Death Studies "Rosenblatt's book brings us up close and personal and into the beauty, and asks what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews, yes beauty of these spaces。
Albright College, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately。