Cemetery Citizens : Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds / Adam Rosenblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenblatt, Adam (Adam Richard), author.

Series:

Lecture notes in electrical engineering ; Volume 1116.

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Series ; Volume 1116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--Conservation and restoration--United States.

Cemeteries.

Volunteer workers in cemeteries--United States.

Volunteer workers in cemeteries.

Cemeteries--Social aspects--United States.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, 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 and what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, poems, and drawings, 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, showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately, Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead - treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories, landscapes, and need for care"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Beauty in Dirt

Introduction: The Dead and Their Emergencies

Part I. The Fields Full of Weeds

One. "When Summer Comes Again, the Cemetery Disappears": Geer

Two. "The Contrast in the Care and Keeping of Our Cemeteries": East End

Three. "The Largest, Most Beautiful, and Popular of All Our Cemeteries": Mount Moriah

A House That's Gone Now: Poems

Part II. Revisions ("It Will Never End, That Work")

Four. Pathways to Revision

Five. Revising How We Belong

Six. Revising Public Space

Conclusion. Fields of Weeds, Fields of Care

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503639126

1503639126