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SHOW SPONSOR SHGAPE & The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraI have never thought of funeral directors as the preservationists of Gilded Age architecture, but they are. Thanks to Dr. Dean Lampros's cross-disciplinary research on the cultural history of these residential funeral parlours we see the remnants of the Gilded Age in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dean joins me to discuss his new book, and the amazing research he has compiled.Essential Reading:Dean Lampros, Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America (2024).Recommended Reading:Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death (1963). Stephen Prothero, Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (2002).Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2004).Gary Laderman, Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America (2005).Marilyn Yalom, The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (2008).Suzanne Smith, To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (2010).Michael Rosenow, Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865 – 1920 (2015).Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (2018). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there an LGBTQ way to pay your taxes? Is there a is there an African American Way or Hispanic or Asian American way to pay your taxes? Is there a male way to pay your taxes a female way to pay your taxes a transgender way to pay your taxes? The answer to all those questions is no. In the same way that there's not an African American or a gay way to buy a car or buy a house get a mortgage. I mean, I understand that there are programs that exist inside the federal government that is trying to encourage diversity of neighborhoods and, and things like that. But I have never, and I'm going all the way back as far as I can think. I have never seen a two-tracked campaign run between the two parties that are so unbelievably different. If I ask 10 random people at any Walmart in America, that means it could be a rural Walmart, it could be a suburban Walmart, it could be an urban Walmart. And I asked people what they cared about in this current election cycle. I think they'd probably say inflation, I think they'd probably say crime. I think a percentage would say immigration, you'd get a couple of people say abortion. But I don't think diversity, like as a standalone issue is on the ballot. I think the issues that are facing people in this country are how do I feed my kid? How do I keep my family safe? How do I afford expensive gasoline? And how do I protect myself if Vladimir Putin decides he's going to send a nuke into the United States of America? And yet, on the other side of the aisle, whatever other side of the aisle there is? You've got people who are obsessed, and I mean, literally obsessed with identity politicsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is America ready for a Black Superman? With the search for a black director and lead for an upcoming movie, the Brews talk about why the new casting choice could be a slam dunk to shake up the sometimes stale superhero. Then, the boys get into Facebook extending their ban on ex-prez Donald J. Trump as he launches his own platform (it's just a blog, lol). Finally, the show closes on Florida's recent walking back of COVID safety precautions under Governor DeSantis, as well as Universal Orlando loosening their safety standards. *Beer of the Week* OEC Brewing Coolship Lager

To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death with Suzanne E. Smith   Suzanne E. Smith is Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University.  Her first book, Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (2000), examines Motown and its relationship to the black community of Detroit and the civil rights movement.  It was awarded third in the eleventh annual Gleason Music Book Awards, sponsored by NYU, Rolling Stone, and BMI.  Her latest book, To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (2010), explores the role of funeral directors in African American life and their participation in the national civil rights movement.  To Serve the Living was a finalist for the Library of Virginia's Non-Fiction Literary Award in 2011.  Her current book project is a biography of the African American radio evangelist, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux.  

Chris Gondek interviews Suzanne E. Smith, the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.

Chris Gondek interviews Suzanne E. Smith, the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.

Chris Gondek interviews Suzanne E. Smith, the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.

Chris Gondek interviews Suzanne E. Smith, the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.