Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds

by Adam Rosenblatt

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503639118
• ISBN13: 9781503639119
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"