Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface to the 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 -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index
