Cemetery Citizens

Cemetery Citizens
Author: Adam Rosenblatt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503639126

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 asks 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.

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
Author: Richard F. Veit
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0813542367

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey's historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 1889
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Journal

Journal
Author: Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 1871
Genre:
ISBN: