African American Grief

Paul C. Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Rosenblatt is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards and distinctions. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Death Studies, the Journal of Loss and Trauma, Mortality, the Journal of Comparative Family Studies, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. He is author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Impact of Racism on African American Families, Grief and Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective, and Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices. Beverly R. Wallace, M.Ed., M.Div., Ph.D., is an associate professor of congregational and community care at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been teaching courses on grief and loss for more than a decade at seminaries around the country. She has experience as a chaplain and pastor at a number of institutions and is the codeveloper of the End-of-Life Inclusion Project. Beverly Wallace is herself African American and interviewed all 26 of the people discussed in this book.

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