id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mytmfztwjzfcbfqc5de2ov5ejy Candi K. Cann Black Deaths Matter Earning the Right to Live: Death and the African-American Funeral Home 2020 15 .pdf application/pdf 10371 744 59 Death and the African-American Funeral Home Abstract: Black Deaths Matter: Earning the Right to Live—Death and the African-American Funeral for local communities, the African American funeral home has been central to ensuring that not only the hiding away of black bodies in funeral homes that were only utilized by communities of color 19 Though there is not much written on the African American funeral industry and its rich history, Arzella Valentine writes in the Civil War and the African American funeral home industry, like the insurance business along African American church, the funeral home offered a place where black identity mattered. The importance and role of the African American funeral home African American funeral homes offered important social spaces, helped consolidate identity, 4000, mostly family-owned black funeral homes, and the communities they serve, more The African American Funeral home continues to play an important role in Available online: http://www.angelohenderson.com/articles/articlesby-angelo/55-death-watch-black-funeral-homes-fear-a-gloomy-future-as-big-chains-move-in (accessed on Available online: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/ online: http://www.woodsvalentinemortuary.com/The_History_of_African-American_Funeral_Service_ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/ http://www.woodsvalentinemortuary.com/The_History_of_African-American_Funeral_Service_320351.html http://www.woodsvalentinemortuary.com/The_History_of_African-American_Funeral_Service_320351.html ./cache/work_mytmfztwjzfcbfqc5de2ov5ejy.pdf ./txt/work_mytmfztwjzfcbfqc5de2ov5ejy.txt