Passed on: African American Mourning Stories
Subtitle: A Memorial
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780822328605
Subjects: Black studies; Death & Dying; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African American Studies; American Studies; General Interest; African Americans; Death; Funeral customs and rites
First sentence: Quiet as it's kept, if the question "Who's got the body?" had been asked very early in the twentieth century, the answer could have been white folk.
Description: "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.

Gracefully 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.