Black Women Undertakers of the Early Twentieth Century Were Hidden in Plain Sight

IF 0.2 Q4 WOMENS STUDIES
Kami Fletcher
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Abstract This essay foregrounds Black women in the very narrative of undertaking that they helped create and develop. It was the wives who helped start the country’s oldest undertaking firms, and it was the wives, sisters, and daughters who sustained and professionalized the funeral home legacy. The article follows women from the American South and mid-Atlantic regions, illustrating how, with their skills and capital, they labored not just as funeral directresses, embalmers, and undertakers but also as bookkeepers, hairdressers, accountants, caterers. These women were “race women,” college-educated Black women who were trained to uplift the race. And as race women in the death trade, they brought their skills and education to a field that created generational wealth and civic empowerment.
20世纪早期的黑人女性殡葬师隐藏在人们的视线中
这篇文章将黑人女性置于她们帮助创造和发展的事业的叙事中。是妻子们帮助创立了这个国家最古老的企业,是妻子、姐妹和女儿们维持了殡仪馆的遗产,并使之专业化。这篇文章追踪了来自美国南部和大西洋中部地区的女性,说明了她们是如何凭借自己的技能和资本,不仅担任殡仪馆馆长、防腐师和殡仪馆承办人,还担任簿记员、美发师、会计和餐饮承办人。这些女性是“种族女性”,受过大学教育的黑人女性,她们受过提升种族的训练。作为从事死亡交易的种族女性,她们将自己的技能和教育带到一个创造世代财富和公民赋权的领域。
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