Describes the differing emotional and political reactions of two families dealing with the deaths of their sons, best friends and soldiers who had been killed w

A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life.

This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.

An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of t

Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which ha