The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Burial grounds: African-American
Burg, S. 2008
‘From troubled ground to common ground: the Locust Grove African-American Cemetery Restoration Project: a case study of service learning and community history’, The Public Historian, 30:2, 51-82.
Burg, S. 2023
‘The material culture of Pennsylvania’s African American cemeteries and burial grounds’, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 90:4, 542-585.
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Cunningham, A. 2024
‘Postmortem racialization: reconceptualizing Frantz Fanon’s Black subject, Transforming Anthropology, 32:1, 27-38.
Jamieson, R.W. 1995
‘Material culture and social death: African-American burial practices’, Historical Archaeology, 29: 39-58.
King, C. 2010
‘Separated by death and color: the African American cemetery of New Philadelphia, Illinois’, Historical Archaeology, 44:1, 125-137.
Lowry, S. 2023
‘An ethical framework for geophysical survey in historic Black cemeteries’, Archaeological Prespection, 31, 419-428.
Matternes, H. & Richey, S. 2014
‘I cry “I am” for all to hear me: the informal cemetery in central Georgia’, in A. Ogundaran & P. Saunders (eds) Natural Expressions of African Disapora, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 258-279.
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Rainville, L. 2014
Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Rainville, L. 2009
‘Protecting our shared heritage in African-American cemeteries’ Journal of Field Archaeology, 34: 2, 196-206.
