Class Acts and Daredevils: Black Masculinity in Jazz Funeral Dancing

Atkins, Jennifer

doi:10.1111/j.1542-734x.2012.00805.x

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“…The significance of involving the community in the African American funeral ceremony dates to West African cultures that saw the death and burial as an important, public, elaborate, and lengthy social event (Atkins, 2012; Holloway, 2002). Today elaborate funerals demonstrating the deceased’s importance and worth are common especially for famous, well known people (Hope, 2010).…”

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Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child

Brooten

Youngblut

Charles

et al. 2016

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

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Purpose To examine rituals (disposing remains, wakes, funerals/burials, celebrations) of White, Black, Hispanic parents post ICU infant/child death. Design and methods Qualitative design, 63 parents completed English or Spanish semi-structured interviews at 7 & 13 months after infant’s/child’s death. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and entered into Atlas.ti for analysis. An inductive approach to thematization was used to develop codes. Results Parents: mean age 35.1 years (SD = 9.03); 33% Black, 27% White, 40% Hispanic; from 17 countries. Three themes emerged: immediately after death - shock and stress, needing help with arrangements, decisions on burial or cremation (conflicts due to finances, religion, culture), when and where to hold wakes, funerals/burials. Wakes and funerals - who prepares child’s body, appropriate dress (deceased child, mourners), who can come (cultural restrictions),-variations by child age, parent choice, culture, religion, country. After burial/cremation - being with family, milestone celebrations. Conclusion Child death is devastating for parents, other children, grandparents, and family members. Practice Implications. Rituals after child death require decisions about the child’s remains, wakes, funerals/burials at time of great pain for parents. This is especially true for newly immigrated parents and those with language barriers where making arrangements is especially hard and often very isolating. Health professionals who provide support need to be cognizant of practice differences based on religion, culture, economics, family traditions, and individual preference and provide as much support and resource as possible. A list of religious leaders representing the community’s cultures and funeral service providers who may provide lower cost burials/cremations is helpful.

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Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child

Brooten

Youngblut

Charles

et al. 2016

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

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“…Historically, jazz funerals entailed a musical procession (also called a second line) from the place of the ceremony to the graveyard for a final send‐off. Today, they mostly take place in the city's streets after which the hearse and the procession of cars drives to a cemetery outside city limits (see Atkins ; Regis ).…”

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Bad deaths, good funerals: The values of life insurance in New Orleans

Mulder

2020

Economic Anthropology

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This article explores the relationship between the value of money and the value of human life as it plays out in the financing of funeral ceremonies. It examines how these values are articulated through life insurance policies concerning violent deaths of working-class black Americans in New Orleans. The article draws on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in New Orleans, which included participant observation at a black-owned funeral home and interviews with funeral directors, policyholders, and beneficiaries. By examining the role of life insurance policies in arranging good funerals after bad deaths, the ethnographic analysis demonstrates how life insurance policies are consumed and can produce value at a moment of loss. It explores the paradox that an insurance policy can at once become a resource for the affirmation of human value and a financial risk in itself.

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Class Acts and Daredevils: Black Masculinity in Jazz Funeral Dancing

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Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child

Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child

Bad deaths, good funerals: The values of life insurance in New Orleans

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