{"id":3087,"date":"2025-05-21T08:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=3087"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:06:07","slug":"cemetery-citizens-author-talk-with-adam-rosenblatt","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/events\/cemetery-citizens-author-talk-with-adam-rosenblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery Citizens: Author Talk with Adam Rosenblatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"x6zurak x18bv5gf x184q3qc xqxll94 x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1lliihq xzsf02u xlh3980 xvmahel x1x9mg3 xo1l8bm\" dir=\"auto\">Join the Museum of Durham History, Preservation Durham, and Friends of Geer Cemetery for a FREE conversation between\u00a0<strong>Adam Rosenblatt, PhD,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia<\/strong>, as they discuss his book,\u00a0<em>Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds.<\/em>\u00a0This event is Monday, June 2, 6:30PM-8PM at Durham\u2019s historic Chesterfield Building (701 W. Main St.), Suite 2908.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Cemetery Citizens<\/em>\u00a0is an ethnography of grassroots groups working to preserve and honor places of the marginalized dead. The book largely focuses on ongoing reclamation efforts in African American burial grounds, including Durham\u2019s own Geer Cemetery. It uses sketches and poetic inquiry to \u201cdraw out\u201d the voices and active, embodied presence of descendants, grassroots activists and memory-workers. In his talk, Professor Rosenblatt will additionally spend time on his methodology, interactions with the Durham community, and research strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Museum of Durham History, Preservation Durham, and Friends of Geer Cemetery for a FREE conversation between\u00a0Adam Rosenblatt, PhD,\u00a0and\u00a0Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia, as they discuss his book,\u00a0Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds.\u00a0This event is Monday, June 2, 6:30PM-8PM at Durham\u2019s historic Chesterfield Building (701 W. Main St.), Suite&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/events\/cemetery-citizens-author-talk-with-adam-rosenblatt\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cemetery Citizens: Author Talk with Adam Rosenblatt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-3087","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/3087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofgeercemetery.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}