Burial grounds: African American

Rainville, L. 2023

‘Sacred ground: how a segregated graveyard preserves the struggles and successes of an African American community in Virginia’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 84-112.

Rosenblatt, A., Palmer, E.H. & Palmer, B. 2023

‘Permanent reconstruction: Richmond’s Black cemeteries’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 253-282.

Stricklin, D. 2015

‘Bringing the dead back to live: reconstructing cemetery burial registers’, in D. Dumitran & M. Rotor (eds) Places of Memory: Cemeteries and Funeral Practices throughout the Time, Alba Iulia: Annalis Universitatis Apulensis, 215-234.

Vine, M. 2024

‘Finding Zion: Spectral intimacy and state indeterminacy at an erased American cemetery’, History and Anthropology, 35:1, 31-47.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract