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The Creole Son

Author : Roy Leblanc
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608447235
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Creole Son written by Roy Leblanc and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, Andre Dupree was elected as a member of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. According to a Louisiana newspaper he was the youngest person ever elected to a major Louisiana political office. As a 23 year old college student he won the election by defeating a college president and the president of a powerful teacher's union. Luck was on Andre's side when a jealous husband attempted to assassinate the college president. Andre had been told to accept his station in life with dignity. Creole kids never had much luck anyway; poor New Orleans neighborhoods were quicksand, no way out. But Andre had determination and tenacity, traits learned on New Orleans streets. Andre's father worked as a maintenance electrician at Tulane University. When Andre graduated from Tulane he delivered the commencement address, his father was in the audience. Andre achieved more than he ever dreamed possible. He helped create programs guaranteeing college availability to qualified Louisiana students. He rewrote the state's Minimum Foundation funding plan for elementary and secondary education, met the Commandant of the Marine Corps in his Pentagon office and ran for congress. Andre also brings about the resignation of the US Speaker of the House. But when it was all said and done, he longed for the many things he thought he wanted to leave behind. Success became an airport layover, not at his destination and not home either, just lost. At the end of the day, Andre fell short in some ways, his political career failed, but it was a wild trip worth remembering. Having entered Louisiana politics while a Political Science student attending the University of New Orleans, winning an obscure New Orleans office, Roy went on to experience the unique flavor of Pelican State politics. As a 21 year old elected member of the Orleans Parish Executive Committee, he exercised parole power covering prostitution, loitering, traffic and many other municipal offences. By 24, Roy was elected, 'Member of Louisiana's State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education' overseeing the state's $2 billion dollar Minimum Foundation Budget for Elementary and Secondary Education and Louisiana's system of Vocational-Technical schools. At 28, Roy was considered a significant challenge to the State's powerful 1ST District Congressman. Married for 25 years, he now enjoys a quiet life in another state. Disguising 9th Ward blue collar family roots behind a thin veneer of polish, success brought breakfast in the Governor's Mansion, private jets, financial security, the honor of being one of the youngest ever elected to a major Louisiana political office and a run for Congress. Every victory was sweet since success was so unexpected. His single advantage was a tenacious back against the wall determination to work harder than any opponent; a valuable trait learned growing up on tough New Orleans streets. An Associate of Arts degree from Delgado College and a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Liberal Arts from Tulane reflect a belief in the power of education to change unfortunate circumstances. Roy has served as President of the Consulting Board for a New Orleans Hospital, President of a Community College Foundation and delivered a commencement address at Tulane University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree recognizing leadership in public education administration.

Creole Son

Author : E. Kay Trimberger
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173258
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Creole Son written by E. Kay Trimberger and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creole Son is the compelling memoir of a single white mother searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a happy child into a troubled young adult who struggled with addiction for decades. The answers, E. Kay Trimberger finds, lie in both nature and nurture. When five-day-old Marco is flown from Louisiana to California and placed in Trimberger’s arms, she assumes her values and example will be the determining influences upon her new son’s life. Twenty-six years later, when she helps him make contact with his Cajun and Creole biological relatives, she discovers that many of his cognitive and psychological strengths and difficulties mirror theirs. Using her training as a sociologist, Trimberger explores behavioral genetics research on adoptive families. To her relief as well as distress, she learns that both biological heritage and the environment—and their interaction—shape adult outcomes. Trimberger shares deeply personal reflections about raising Marco in Berkeley in the 1980s and 1990s, with its easy access to drugs and a culture that condoned their use. She examines her own ignorance about substance abuse, and also a failed experiment in an alternative family lifestyle. In an afterword, Marc Trimberger contributes his perspective, noting a better understanding of his life journey gained through his mother’s research. By telling her story, Trimberger provides knowledge and support to all parents—biological and adoptive—with troubled offspring. She ends by suggesting a new adoption model, one that creates an extended, integrated family of both biological and adoptive kin.

Creole Son

Author : E. Kay Trimberger
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080717310X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Creole Son written by E. Kay Trimberger and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creole Son is the compelling memoir of a single white mother searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a happy child into a troubled young adult who struggled with addiction for decades. The answers, E. Kay Trimberger finds, lie in both nature and nurture. When five-day-old Marco is flown from Louisiana to California and placed in Trimberger’s arms, she assumes her values and example will be the determining influences upon her new son’s life. Twenty-six years later, when she helps him make contact with his Cajun and Creole biological relatives, she discovers that many of his cognitive and psychological strengths and difficulties mirror theirs. Using her training as a sociologist, Trimberger explores behavioral genetics research on adoptive families. To her relief as well as distress, she learns that both biological heritage and the environment—and their interaction—shape adult outcomes. Trimberger shares deeply personal reflections about raising Marco in Berkeley in the 1980s and 1990s, with its easy access to drugs and a culture that condoned their use. She examines her own ignorance about substance abuse, and also a failed experiment in an alternative family lifestyle. In an afterword, Marc Trimberger contributes his perspective, noting a better understanding of his life journey gained through his mother’s research. By telling her story, Trimberger provides knowledge and support to all parents—biological and adoptive—with troubled offspring. She ends by suggesting a new adoption model, one that creates an extended, integrated family of both biological and adoptive kin.

Dark, Light, Almost White

Author : Warren Barrios Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970684929
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Dark, Light, Almost White written by Warren Barrios Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating look into Warren Wilson's life and how, in the face of racism, he overcame many challenges to become a successful civil rights attorney.

Creole Son

Author : Micheal Llewellyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621341000
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Creole Son written by Micheal Llewellyn and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From WATER STREET PRESS In 1872, French painter Edgar Degas is disillusioned by a lackluster career and haunted by the Prussian siege of Paris and the bloodbath of the Commune. Seeking personal and professional rebirth, he journeys to New Orleans, birthplace of his Creole mother. He is horrified to learn he has exchanged one city in crisis for another-post-Civil War New Orleans is a corrupt town occupied by hostile Union troops and suffering under the heavy hand of Reconstruction. He is further shocked to find his family deeply involved in the violent struggle to reclaim political power at all costs. Despite the chaos swirling around him, Degas sketches and paints with fervor and manages to reinvent himself and transition his style from neoclassical into the emerging world of Impressionism. He ultimately became one of the masters of the new movement, but how did New Orleans empower Degas to fulfill this destiny? The answer may be found in the impeccably researched, richly imagined historical novel, Creole Son.

Chef Creole

Author :
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589806177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Chef Creole written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this variation on the traditional song "Aiken Drum," Chef Creole from New Orleans has hair of rice, eyes of red beans, and feet of beignets.

Creole City

Author : Nathalie Dessens
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813055237
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Creole City written by Nathalie Dessens and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creole City, Nathalie Dessens opens a window onto antebellum New Orleans during a time of rapid expansion and dizzying change. The story—rooted in the Sainte-Gême Family Papers harbored at The Historic New Orleans Collection—follows the twenty-year correspondence of Jean Boze to Henri de Ste-Gême, both refugees from Saint-Domingue. Exploring parts of the city’s early nineteenth-century history that have previously been neglected, Dessens examines how New Orleans came to symbolize progress, adventure, and culture to so many. Through Boze’s letters, readers witness the convergence of new Americans and old colonial populations that sparked transformations in the economic, social, and political structures, as well as the Creolization of the city. Additionally, the letters depict transatlantic experiences at a time when New Orleans was a key hub of the Atlantic trade and so very distinct from other nineteenth-century American metropolises, such as New York and Philadelphia. Dessens’s portrayal of this seminal period is innovative and crucial to understanding of the city’s rich record and its larger role in American history.

Creole

Author : Sybil Kein
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807126011
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Creole written by Sybil Kein and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Louisiana; and though their history dates from the late 1600s, they have been sorely neglected in the literature. Creole is a project that both defines and celebrates this ethnic identity. In fifteen essays, writers intimately involved with their subject explore the vibrant yet understudied culture of the Creole people across time—their language, literature, religion, art, food, music, folklore, professions, customs, and social barriers.

Cajun and Creole Music Makers

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578061709
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Cajun and Creole Music Makers written by Barry Jean Ancelet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The virtual renaissance of all things Cajun and Creole has captivated enthusiasts throughout America and invigorated the culture back home. Who, just fifteen years ago, could have predicted that this regional music would become so astonishingly popular throughout the nation and the world? This new edition of a book first published in 1984 celebrates the music makers in the generation most responsible for the survival of Cajun music and zydeco and showcases many of the young performers who have emerged since them to give the music new spark. More than 100 color photographs, show them in their homes, on their front porches, and in their fields, as well as in performance at local clubs and dance halls and on festival stages. In interviews they speak directly about their lives, their music, and the vital tradition from which their rollicking music springs. Many of the legendary performers featured here--Dewey Balfa, Clifton Chenier, Nathan Abshire, Dennis McGee, Canray Fontenot, Varise Connor, Octa Clark, Lula Landry, and Inez Catalon--are no longer alive. Others from the early days continue to perform--Bois-sec Ardoin, Michael Doucet, D. L. Menard, and Zachary Richard. Their grandeur, humor, and humility are precisely the qualities this book captures. Featured too are young musicians who are taking their place in the dance halls, on festival stages, and on the folk music circuit. Cajun and Creole music makers, both young and old, still play in the old ways, but as young musicians--such as Geno Delafose and the French Rockin' Boogie, and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys-- experiment and enrich the tradition with new sounds of rock, country, rap, and funk, the music evolves and enlivens a whole new audience. Barry Jean Ancelet, a native French-speaking Cajun, is chair of the Department of Modern Languages and director of the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Among his many books are Cajun Country and Cajun and Creole Folk Tales (both from the University Press of Mississippi). Elemore Morgan, Jr., is an artist and retired professor of visual art at University of Southwestern Louisiana.

THE Creole Book

Author : Janet Ravare Colson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105647021
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book THE Creole Book written by Janet Ravare Colson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication traces the history, accomplishments and milestones of the Creole Center located at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. THE Creole Book presents a beginning look at some of the Center's work and accomplishments. In its thirteen plus years of existence, the Center has served not only the Creoles in Louisiana, but the national Creole public, scholars, and anyone interested in the culture from around the world. It has paved the way for the long sought after recognition of the unique and deserving Louisiana Creole culture. The Center has also become the national Creole voice. To put it bluntly, Creoles can now be comfortable in declaring their culture and heritage. It is the author's belief that this would not be possible without the work that the Creole Center has done.

Cajun and Creole Folktales

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496806565
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Cajun and Creole Folktales written by Barry Jean Ancelet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings—the Cajun French and its English translation—along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales—all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.

Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages

Author : Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275459
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages written by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-02-12 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly resulting in different degrees of “radicalness” and intermediate language types (“semi-creoles”)? If so, by which linguistic structures are these characterized, and by which extralinguistic conditions have they been brought about? Which are the linguistic mechanisms underlying processes of restructuring, and how did grammaticalization and reanalysis shape the reorganization of linguistic, specifically morphosyntactic structures commonly called “creolization”? What is the role of language contact, language mixing, substrates and superstrates, or demographic factors in these processes? This volume provides select and revised papers from a 1998 colloquium at the University of Regensburg in which these questions were addressed. 19 contributions by renowned scholars discuss structural, sociohistorical and theoretical aspects, building upon case studies of both Romance-based and English-oriented creoles. This book marks a major step forward in our understanding of the nature of creolization.

The Creoles of Louisiana by George W. Cable

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Creoles of Louisiana by George W. Cable written by George Washington Cable and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children of the River

Author : Harris Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Children of the River written by Harris Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Le Malaise Creole

Author : Rosabelle Boswell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388753
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Le Malaise Creole written by Rosabelle Boswell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one explain the poverty and marginalization of a group that lives in a remarkably successful economy and peaceful society? A native anthropologist, the author provides critical insight into the dynamics of contemporary Mauritian society. In her meticulously researched study of ethnic, gender and racial discrimination in Mauritius, she addresses debates carried out in many developing societies on subaltern identities, ethnicity, poverty and social injustice. The book therefore also offers important empirical material for scholars interested in the wider Indian Ocean region and beyond.

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628468181
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention. This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials. During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society—white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War, some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society.

Imagining the Creole City

Author : Rien Fertel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807158240
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Creole City written by Rien Fertel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output -- histories and novels, poetry and plays -- that white Creoles used to imagine themselves as a unified community of writers and readers. Rien Fertel argues that Charles Gayarré's English-language histories of Louisiana, which emphasized the state's dual connection to America and to France, provided the foundation of a white Creole print culture predicated on Louisiana's exceptionalism. The writings of authors like Grace King, Adrien Rouquette, and Alfred Mercier consciously fostered an image of Louisiana as a particular social space, and of themselves as the true inheritors of its history and culture. In turn, the forging of this white Creole identity created a close-knit community of cosmopolitan Creole elites, who reviewed each other's books, attended the same salons, crusaded against the popular fiction of George Washington Cable, and worked together to preserve the French language in local and state governmental institutions. Together they reimagined the definition of "Creole" and used it as a marker of status and power. By the end of this group's era of cultural prominence, Creole exceptionalism had become a cornerstone in the myth of Louisiana in general and of New Orleans in particular. In defining themselves, the authors in the white Creole print community also fashioned a literary identity that resonates even today.