Intro -- African American Grief -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Grief and Life Span -- Chapter 2 Racism as a Cause of Death -- Chapter 3 Racism and Discrimination in the Life of the Deceased -- Chapter 4 Visitations, Wakes, and Funerals -- Chapter 5 African American Institutions for Dealing with Death -- Chapter 6 How People Talked about Grief -- Chapter 7 Grief Soon after the Death -- Chapter 8 Meaning Making -- Chapter 9 Grief Over the Long Run -- Chapter 10 The Family Grief Process -- Chapter 11 God -- Chapter 12 Being Strong in Grief -- Chapter 13 Continuing Contact with the Deceased -- Chapter 14 Talking about It, Crying about It with Others -- Chapter 15 Our Grief and Theirs: African Americans Compare Their Grief with Euro-American Grief -- Chapter 16 Understanding African American Grief -- Appendix -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

African American Grief is a unique contribution to the field, both as a professional resource for counselors, therapists, social workers, clergy, and nurses, and as a reference volume for thanatologists, academics, and researchers. This work considers the potential effects of slavery, racism, and white ignorance and oppression on the African American experience and conception of death and grief in America. Based on interviews with 26 African-Americans who have faced the death of a significant person in their lives, the authors document, describe, and analyze key phenomena of the unique African-American experience of grief. The book combines moving narratives from the interviewees with sound research, analysis, and theoretical discussion of important issues in thanatology as well as topics such as the influence of the African-American church, gospel music, family grief, medical racism as a cause of death, and discrimination during life and after death.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.