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100 1 $aHolloway, Karla F. C.,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85242424
245 10 $aPassed on :$bAfrican American mourning stories : a memorial /$cby Karla FC Holloway.
260 $aDurham, NC :$bDuke University Press,$c2002.
300 $axiv, 232 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
505 00 $g1.$t"Who's Got the Body?": The Business of Burial --$g2.$tMortifications: How We Die --$g3.$tThe Ends of Days --$g4.$tFuneralized: The Remains of Our Days --$g5.$tThe Promise of Hope in a Season of Despair: A Funeral Sermon by Maurice O. Wallace --$tEpilogue / In Memoriam.
520 1 $a"Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a part of black identity as ways of living.
520 8 $aGracefully interweaving interviews, archival research, and analyses of literature, film, and music, Holloway shows how the vulnerability of African Americans to untimely death is inextricably linked to how black culture represents itself and is represented."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xFuneral customs and rites.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xDeath.
852 00 $bglx$hGT3203$i.H65 2002