To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne E. Smith

To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death

Suzanne E. Smith

257 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

nonfiction psychology emotional informative slow-paced
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From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "homegoing" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black ...

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