Why read Death and Rebirth in a Southern City?

Book cover of Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries

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This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital.

Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death…

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Seth Mallios

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Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond’s Historic Cemeteries is two books in one. It is a traditional survey of a particular region’s graveyards that is rich in history and lore. But it also exposes historical racial inequities in the care of a city’s dead and sets the stage for current activism that is seeking to reclaim important sites of memorialization for the area’s disenfranchised population and its current descendants.

From Seth's list on The best books that embrace the reality (and super-spooky creepiness) of cemeteries across America.