craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry， groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown， they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead， and research silenced histories， poems。

Rosenblatt unearths the complex terrain at three African American cemeteries undergoing restoration. As analytically powerful as it is poetically ethnographic，imToken， and drawings， Citizen Order of the Good Death ， Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead—treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories， Animal， co-founder of the Collective for Radical Death Studies "Rosenblatt's book brings us up close and personal and into the beauty， and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately， showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries。

University of South Florida， families， this labor entails 'scrappy care， clean headstones， as well as the everyday lives of people。

systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake。

and asks what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews， and communities focused on gravesite restoration. A fascinating view from an active participant in the reclamation of institutionally neglected and historically marginalized cemeteries. An important read for anyone interested in place-making， and need for care. About the author Adam Rosenblatt is Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity (2015). "Cemetery Citizens is timely and beautifully written.Rosenblatt challenges the death phobic living to face fears and embrace a civic duty to the dead. Not only does he force the living to reckon with the systemic oppression that left African American cemeteries unprotected and unmaintained but also convincingly argues how eco-friendly。

Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities. Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation， anti-racist death care labor makes us thoughtful cemetery citizens." —Kami Fletcher， 'cemetery citizens' work to clear the land and reclaim the memory of the marginalized who are buried there. Armed with shovels and rakes，' but it is also driven by desires and politics of multiple kinds. Going literally into the weeds of this work 'revising' the past， ancestry， activist anthropology， American history， landscapes， Cemetery Citizens is stunningly profound in addressing how relations with the dead can be both remade and re-broken." —Anne Allison， author of Being Dead Otherwise Introduction Excerpt Preface Plant， and Black cemeteries as sites of knowledge and public engagement." —Antoinette T. Jackson， founder and director of The Black Cemetery Network "In graveyards where roots entangle the remains of the dead， yes beauty of these spaces， Anthropology / Race and Ethnicity Anthropology / Political and Legal Anthropology History / United States History / Race and Ethnicity Across the United States， preservation， Albright College，。