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Passed on : African American mourning stories : a memorial collection / Karla FC Holloway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Funeral customs and rites.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.
- Contents:
- "Who's got the body?", the business of burial
- Mortification, how we die
- Ends of days
- Funeralized, the remains of our days
- Promise of hope in a season of despair, a funeral sermon by Maurice O. Wallace
- Epilogue, in memoriam.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8507-4
- 1-283-06471-5
- 9786613064714
- OCLC:
- 213455196
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