TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Suzanne E.
TI  - To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
SN  - 9780674054646
AV  - GT3203 
U1  - 363.7508996073 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies-United States
KW  - African Americans-Funeral customs and rites
KW  - African Americans-Social life and customs
KW  - Undertakers and undertaking-United States
KW  - United States-Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: An Undertaker Like Him -- 1. From Hush Harbors to Funeral Parlors -- 2. The Colored Embalmer -- 3. My Man's an Undertaker -- 4. A Funeral Hall Is as Good a Place as Any -- 5. The African American Way of Death -- Epilogue: She Has Gone Home -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. Here is their story
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