Segregation

Christians, L., De Pooter, P. & Tilkin, G. 2011

‘Islam et parcelles confessionnelles dans les cimetieres en Belgique’, Revue de Droit Communal, 2, 2-12.

Christoper, A. 1995

‘Segregation and cemeteries in Port Elizabeth, SA’, Geographical Journal, 161:1, 38-46.

Dennie, G. 2010

‘Sacred places, racial homilies: the genesis of the segregated cemetery in Johannesburg, 1886-1909’, Lagos Historical Review, 10, 28-49.

Fletcher, K. 2023

‘Jim Crowing the dead: a fight for African American burial rights and dismantling racial burial covenants’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 149-170.

Keywords

Freeman, J. 2006

‘Singapore’s multicultural cemetery and its Chinese section’, Markers, 13, 92-132.

Giguere, J. 2023

‘The crown jewel of Kentucky: Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 51-79.

Hubert, O. 2003

‘Espaces sacrés, distribution des corps et groupes sociaux dans le Québec rural des 18e et 19e siècles, Annales de Bretagne et des Pays d L’Ouest, 110-4, 115-124.

Jedan, C., Kmec, S., Kolnberger, T. & 2 others 2020

‘Co-creating ritual spaces and communities: an analysis of Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812-2020’, Religions, 11:9, 435.

Jernigan, S. 2023

‘The status quo made picturesque: nineteenth-century Macon, Georgia, and its garden of the dead’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 16-50.

Klapetek, M. 2017

‘Muslim areas at municipal cemeteries in Germany and Austria’, Studia Religiologica, 50:3, 203-220.

Krüger-Kahloula, A. 1994

‘On the wrong side of the fence: racial segregation in American cemeteries’, in G. Fabre & R. O’Meally (eds) History and Memory in African-American Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 130-149.

Keywords

Krüger-Kahloula, A. 1989

‘Tributes in stone and lapidary lapses: commemorating black people in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America’, Markers 6, 32–100.

Luria, K. 2001

‘Separated by death? Burials, cemeteries and confessional boundaries in seventeenth‐century France’, French Historical Studies, 24:2, 185-222.

Prior, L. 1989

The Social Organisation of Death, Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Rogers, K. 2005

‘Integrating the city of the dead: the integration of cemeteries and the evolution of property law, 1900–1969’, Alabama Law Review, 56:4,153–66.

Williams, S.L. 2023

‘Death can not make our souls afraid: Mosaic Templars of America Zephroes in Macon County, Alabama, 1887-1931’, in K. Fletcher & A. Towle (eds) Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 113-148.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract