Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed [1st printing (epub) ed.] 9781496827906, 1496827902

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Table of contents :
Cover
Till Death Do Us Part
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One “A Beautiful Garden Consecrated to the Lord”: Marriage, Death, and Local Constructions of Citizenship in New York’s Nineteenth-Century Jewish Rural Cemeteries
Chapter Two “Death Is Not a Wedding”: The Cemetery as a Polish American Communal Experience
Chapter Three An Ocean Apart: Chinese American Segregated Burials
Chapter Four Founding Baltimore’s Mount Auburn Cemetery and Its Importance to Understanding African American Burial Rights
Chapter Five Till Death Keeps Us Apart: Segregated Cemeteries and Social Values in St. Louis, Missouri
Chapter Six “For Interment of White People Only”: Cemetery Superintendents’ Authority and the Wealthy White Protestant Lawn-Park Cemetery, 1886–1920
Chapter Seven “In the Grave We Are All Equal”: Northern New Mexican Burial Grounds in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Eight Family, Religion, and Relocations: Arab American Burial Practices
List of Contributors

Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed [1st printing (epub) ed.]
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