American Mourning
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American Mourning
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Author : Catherine Moy
language : en
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Release Date : 2006
American Mourning written by Catherine Moy and has been published by Cumberland House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Describes the differing emotional and political reactions of two families dealing with the deaths of their sons, best friends and soldiers who had been killed within five days of each other in the Iraq War.
Passed On
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Author : Karla FC Holloway
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-09-03
Passed On written by Karla FC Holloway and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.
American Mourning
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Author : Simon Stow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-25
American Mourning written by Simon Stow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-25 with Political Science categories.
This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.
Passed On
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Author : Karla FC Holloway
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-09-03
Passed On written by Karla FC Holloway and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.
American Afterlife
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Author : Kate Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2014-03-15
American Afterlife written by Kate Sweeney and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Social Science categories.
An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a garden at her daughter’s grave. Today, she might tend the roadside memorial she erected where her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter’s hair; the other, a necklace containing her ashes. What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale―that of death in America. It’s a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who are personally involved with death: obit writers in the desert, an Atlantic funeral voyage, a fourth-generation funeral director―even a midwestern museum that shows us our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another, revealing a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny. “Sweeney’s quest for the “why” behind mourning rituals has given us a book in the best tradition of narrative journalism.”—Jessica Handler, author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss
American Mourning
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Author : Simon Stow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
American Mourning written by Simon Stow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Bereavement categories.
How does the way in which a democratic polity mourn its losses shape its political outcomes? How might it shape those outcomes? American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience answers these questions with a critical study of American public mourning. Employing mourning as a lens through which to view the shortcomings of American democracy, it offers an argument for a tragic, complex, and critical mode of mourning that it contrasts with the nationalist, romantic, and nostalgic responses to loss that currently dominate and damage the polity. Offering new readings of key texts in Ancient political thought and American political history, it engages debates central to contemporary democratic theory concerned with agonism, acknowledgment, hope, humanism, patriotism, and political resilience. The book outlines new ways of thinking about and responding to terrorism, racial conflict, and the problems of democratic military return.
Mourning In America
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Author : David W. McIvor
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Mourning In America written by David W. McIvor and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning—its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities. In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. Mourning in America connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. McIvor also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004–2006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979—a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
Passed On
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Author : Karla F. C. Holloway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Passed On written by Karla F. C. Holloway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African Americans categories.
"Passed On is a portrait of death and dying and a history of the funeral business in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and a 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 archival research, interviews, and analyses of literature, film, and music, Holloway shows how the vulnerability of African Americans to untimely death is inextricable from how black culture represents itself and is represented."--back cover.
Passed On
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Author : Karla F. C. Holloway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-04-01
Passed On written by Karla F. C. Holloway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-01 with categories.
A portrait of death & dying & a history of the funeral business in 20th-cent. African Amer. A thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, & politics of African Amer. mourning & burial practices. Ways of dying are just as much a part of black identity as a ways of living. Interweaves archival research, interviews, & analyses of literature, film, & music. Shows how the vulnerability of African Amer. to untimely death is inextricable from how black culture represents itself & is represented. Examines how race not only affects the meaning of black lives, but their deaths as well. Demonstrates how a combination of racial injustice, violence against blacks, & medical neglect has shaped black people's expected transition between this world & the afterlife. Ill.
African American Grief
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Author : Paul C. Rosenblatt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-11
African American Grief written by Paul C. Rosenblatt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-11 with Psychology categories.
African American Grief is a unique contribution to the field, both as a professional resource for counselors, therapists, social workers, clergy, and nurses, and as a reference volume for thanatologists, academics, and researchers. The classic edition includes a new preface from the authors reflecting on their work and on the changes in society and the field since the book’s initial publication. This work considers the potential effects of slavery, racism, and white ignorance and oppression on the African American experience and conception of death and grief in America. Based on interviews with 26 African Americans who have faced the death of a significant person in their lives, the authors document, describe, and analyze key phenomena of the unique African American experience of grief. The book combines moving narratives from the interviewees with sound research, analysis, and theoretical discussion of important issues in thanatology, as well as topics such as the influence of the African American church, gospel music, family grief, medical racism as a cause of death, and discrimination during life and after death.