- Abbreviations
- Prologue: An Undertaker Like Him
- 1. From Hush Harbors to Funeral Parlors
- 2. The Colored Embalmer
- 3. My Man’s an Undertaker
- 4. A Funeral Hall Is as Good a Place as Any
- 5. The African American Way of Death
- Epilogue: She Has Gone Home
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- [Illustrations follow page 78]
To Serve the Living
Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
Book Details
HARDCOVER
$32.50 • £24.95 • €29.30
ISBN 9780674036215
Publication: February 2010
Awards
- Finalist, 2011 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia
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