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Black Cemetery Scholars Collective
Selected Resources
Akinwumi, Ogundiran and Paula Saunders. Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
Bardes, Eleanor Dooks and Mary H. Remler. Hamilton County, Ohio Burial Records; V. 9: Union Baptist African American Cemetery. Berwyn Heights, MD: Heritage Books, 2013.
Edgar, Heather J.H. and Cathy Willermet. The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico: Five Centuries of Change. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2023.
Fagan, Brian M. Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fletcher, Kami and Ashley Towle. Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Frantel, Nancy C. Richmond, Virginia, Lost Souls Restored: African-American Interments as Listed in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery Register, 1875-1908. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2011.
Gall, Michael J. and Richard F. Veit. Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017.
Moreman, Christopher M. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Places of Cultural Memory: African Reflections on the American Landscape. Washington, DC: National Park Service, 2001.
Poirier, David A. and Nicholas F. Bellantoni. In Remembrance: Archaeology and Death. Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 1997.
Rankin-Hill, Lesley M. A Biohistory of 19th-century Afro-Americans: The Burial Remains of a Philadelphia Cemetery. Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 1997.
Ric, Murphy. Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery: the African American History of America's Most Hallowed Ground Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2020.
Rosenblatt, Adam. Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024.
Shackel, Paul A. Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
van Balgooy, Max A. Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Veit, Richard. Innovation and Implementation: Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023.
Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. Places of Commemoration: Search for Identity and Landscape Design. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001.
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