Louisiana's Creole Food & Culture A Menu of Ethnic Diversity

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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana's Creole Food & Culture A Menu of Ethnic Diversity by : John LaFleur, II

Download or read book Louisiana's Creole Food & Culture A Menu of Ethnic Diversity written by John LaFleur, II and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an outstanding study of the formation and ingredients of traditional Louisiana culture using anthropology, geography, history, linguistics, and cooking. It is a conscious rejection of previous studies which racialized and divided the culture and properly defines it as layers of original cultures of Native Americans, Africans and Europeans merging to form the new Louisiana Creole at the heart of much of Louisiana, East Texas all the way to the West Coast of the USA. It properly and effectively rejects the widespread mythology assuming a separate, "white" Cadjan culture still too widespread in studies of Louisiana. Its' impact should be found in any study of the formation of the many fascinating regional cultures of the USA and indeed, much of the world."-Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author-scholar, Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century

Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions

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Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3730909983
Total Pages : 155 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions by : Ina Fandrich

Download or read book Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions written by Ina Fandrich and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last four decades, Louisiana has promoted its 500 year old French Colonial Creole culture as "Cajun" implying that this culture had its origin in Acadian Canada. Nothing could be farthest from the truth! During the racially turbulent 1960's Jim Crow era when black Americans were literally struggling for their civil and human rights, the historic nomenclature for Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic CREOLE culture would change to a weird stereotyping of only WHITE French-speakers as "Cajun" and only BLACK French-speakers as "Creole" -regardless of the facts of history, genealogy, geography and genalogical reality. Today, the meaning of "Cajun" has once again changed into something which seeks to encompass a so-called "regional identity" which again, ignores its own past and historical meaning. What's really going on? In "Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions: Facts vs Fiction Before and Since Cajunization" authors John LaFleur II and Brian Costello, both life-long Louisiana French Colonial Creole speakers and cultural experts, along with Dr. Ina Fandrich of New Orleans, have decided to provide meaningful answers to questions long plaguing and confusing both the international and their local public. Their research, personal knowledge and answers are provided in this historic first which traces the pre-Acadian roots of Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic or Creole people, their foodways and their several languages still spoken in Louisiana today. The answers are often humorous, but poignantly factual and well-documented. This beautiful hardcover book is furnished in vintage black and white and contemporary full-color photography which grounds facts, places and people to a forgotten reality and culture which has been re-labeled and mass-marketed as "Cajun" for reasons both shameful and comical to educated and right-minded people alike.

Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture

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ISBN 13 : 3736820550
Total Pages : 89 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture by : John LaFleur II

Download or read book Louisiana's Creole French People: Our Language, Food & Culture written by John LaFleur II and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and poignant book, 500 Years Of Culture: Louisiana's Creole French & Metis People, Food, Language and Culture, I seek to provide my intelligent lay readers appropriate and useful scholarly resources which illustrate that a pre-Acadian culture of Canadian and North American Métis roots, to which was added European, African and later Spanish elements combined in both "Upper" and "Lower Louisiana" resulting in a multi-ethnic, but distinctly unique Louisiana Creole culture. Though reminiscent of other kindred Creole cultures and people of the world of the former French Empire, she remains unique. This unique historic, but forgotten culture existed prior to the arrival of the Acadians, and its cultural and linguistic traditions resulted in Louisiana's historic "Creole" culture. This multi-ethnic culture's food ways, language and social traditions were hijacked and promoted as if it was something totally new in the 1970s and 80s, and then relabeled "Cajun" with no regard for the pre-existant and dominant history and sensibilities of the non-white ethnicities who were the true originators and creators of Louisiana's long indigenous and pre-Acadian culture! It is my hope to sufficiently demonstrate through this historical narrative, which is both passionate and humorous, how greed, ignorance and commerce joined hands in relabeling Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic Creole French and metis culture as if Acadian-Canada was the source of this remarkable and unusual culture which remains foreign to anything in Acadie! Informative and well-researched, I submit to you the reading and caring public, this revision which is also a much more readable, better edited and supplemented text. In this book, for example, a badly needed chapter on the cultural relationship between Louisiana Creole and Haitian Creole culture is provided and will prove to be a great source of help in avoiding needless confusion of these two separate, but kindred cultures. Though small, this little book will no doubt, prove to be a powerhouse of jaw-dropping facts, as it is an uproariously humorous expose' of one of the most popular cultural forces in America and across the planet today! And, notwithstanding our best efforts, sometimes typographical errors and misses occur. For whatever imperfections of text remain, I take full responsibility as I also apologize to you dear reader.

Creole

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807142050
Total Pages : 369 pages
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Book Synopsis Creole by : Sybil Kein

Download or read book Creole written by Sybil Kein and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderstanding. Now both aspects of this unique people and culture are given thorough, illuminating scrutiny in Creole, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary history of Louisiana's Creole population. Written by scholars, many of Creole descent, the volume wrangles with the stuff of legend and conjecture while fostering an appreciation for the Creole contribution to the American mosaic. The collection opens with a historically relevant perspective found in Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's 1916 piece "People of Color of Louisiana" and continues with contemporary writings: Joan M. Martin on the history of quadroon balls; Michel Fabre and Creole expatriates in France; Barbara Rosendale Duggal with a debiased view of Marie Laveau; Fehintola Mosadomi and the downtrodden roots of Creole grammar; Anthony G. Barthelemy on skin color and racism as an American legacy; Caroline Senter on Reconstruction poets of political vision; and much more. Violet Harrington Bryan, Lester Sullivan, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Sybil Kein, Mary Gehman, Arthi A. Anthony, and Mary L. Morton offer excellent commentary on topics that range from the lifestyles of free women of color in the nineteenth century to the Afro-Caribbean links to Creole cooking. By exploring the vibrant yet marginalized culture of the Creole people across time, Creole goes far in diminishing past and present stereotypes of this exuberant segment of our society. A study that necessarily embraces issues of gender, race and color, class, and nationalism, it speaks to the tensions of an increasingly ethnically mixed mainstream America.

Louisiana Creole & Cajun Cultures in Perspective

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Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545751641
Total Pages : 85 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana Creole & Cajun Cultures in Perspective by : Kathleen Tracy

Download or read book Louisiana Creole & Cajun Cultures in Perspective written by Kathleen Tracy and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun Cultures in Perspective Louisiana’s colorful past has shaped the state’s culturally diverse present. Its territory has had numerous claimants. The first was explorer Hernando de Soto on behalf of Spain in 1541, followed by Robert de la Salle of France and even the short-lived Republic of West Florida before it became the 18th state to join the Union in 1812. At the start of the Civil War, Louisiana became an independent republic for two weeks after seceding from the Union before joining the Confederacy.

The Secrets of Louisiana Creole Cooking-New Edition

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ISBN 13 : 9781729162118
Total Pages : 231 pages
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Book Synopsis The Secrets of Louisiana Creole Cooking-New Edition by : Algertice Chargois-Jefferson

Download or read book The Secrets of Louisiana Creole Cooking-New Edition written by Algertice Chargois-Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secrets of Louisiana Creole Cooking-"New Edition" is an updated version of the original title. It is a true story of the history of a multicultural people, with a unique cuisine combined from each one of those cultures. Included are more recipes featuring "Stuffed Flounder," ethnic diversity, Louisiana French expressions with translations, lots of pictures showing authenticity, and a tour of "The Old Country," showing how some things are still the same and how some have changed dramatically. It will also intrigue those who are interested in the "Hush Hush" and "Swept Under the Carpet" secrets of Southern Louisiana Creole History.

Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions

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ISBN 13 : 9780615742571
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions by : John La Fleur

Download or read book Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions written by John La Fleur and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions.... is a first true exploration of Louisiana's long neglected and misrepresented diverse multi-ethnic Creole peoples, their food ways and languages which created her historic culture, and which culture was wholly assimilated by the later arriving Acadians who developed therefrom the Louisiana sub-culture known as "Cajun".

Louisiana Creoles

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073911896X
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana Creoles by : Andrew Jolivétte

Download or read book Louisiana Creoles written by Andrew Jolivétte and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew Joliv tte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial identity formation and community construction among Creoles of Color living in and out of the state of Louisiana. By including the voices of contemporary Creole organizations, preservationists, and grassroots organizers, Joliv tte offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the ways in which history has impacted the ability of Creoles to self-define their own community in political, social, and legal contexts. This book raises important questions concerning the process of cultural formation and the politics of ethnic categories for multiracial communities in the United States. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the themes found throughout Louisiana Creoles are especially relevant for students of sociology and those interested in identity issues.

Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Creole French & "Cajun" Language Tell Their Own Story

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ISBN 13 : 3730911465
Total Pages : 75 pages
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Book Synopsis Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Creole French & "Cajun" Language Tell Their Own Story by : John laFleur II

Download or read book Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Creole French & "Cajun" Language Tell Their Own Story written by John laFleur II and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from a larger work,"Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Colonial French, Creole & Cajun Languages Tell Their Story" reveals Louisiana's remarkable Old World French & metis language traditions which continue to enchant America and scholars in all the world! But, along with the fame Cajunization has brought the State, historical distortion and misinformation fostered by mass-marketing and media conditioning myopia have suppressed and misrepresented Louisiana's historic French languages, cultural history and people as if uniquely Acadian in origin. But, Louisiana's diverse multi-ethnic French languages, cultural traditions and people existed long before the arrival of the Acadians, who themselves were to become its beneficiaries! Author-scholars John laFleur & Brian Costello, native-speakers respectively of Louisiana's Colonial Creole French & her sister tongue of Louisiana Afro-Creole with Dr. Ina Fandrich, provide a non-commercially scripted, first-time study of both the history and ethnological origins of Louisiana's diverse French-speaking peoples of the French Triangle and present the unvarnished results of their investigation, experience along with the evidence of modern and historical scholarship as seen through the franco and creolophonic traditions of Louisiana. A must read for all Louisiana cultural and linguistic afficionados!

Creoles of South Louisiana

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Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Creoles of South Louisiana by : Elista Istre

Download or read book Creoles of South Louisiana written by Elista Istre and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... examines past and present Creole culture through its history, food ways, oral traditions, music, and continued efforts to preserve Creole traditions"--

Acadiana Table

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Publisher : Harvard Common Press
ISBN 13 : 1558328696
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Book Synopsis Acadiana Table by : George Graham

Download or read book Acadiana Table written by George Graham and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing in the world quite like Creole and Cajun cooking. Experience this unique, regional cooking tradition that's steeped in culture and history with Arcadiana Table. In this beautifully photographed, 125-recipe regional cookbook, Louisiana native George Graham welcomes home cooks and food lovers to the world of Cajun and Creole cooking. The Acadiana region of southwest Louisiana, where this unique cuisine has its roots, is a journey into a fascinating culinary landscape. Filled with many of the standard dishes expected in a Louisiana cookbook, Acadiana Table also includes brand-new recipes, techniques, and an exploration into the culture, geography, and history of this distinctive area. Fans of Louisiana are sure to love this cookbook, even if they've been cooking Creole and Cajun for years. Book chapters include: First You Make a Roux Sunrise in Acadiana Simmering Black Pots A Little Lagniappe on the Side Farm Fresh The Cajun/Creole Coast If it Flies, It Fries Meats and the Mastery of the Boucherie Sweet Surrender

"Honey, We's All Creoles"

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Total Pages : 309 pages
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Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749504
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Book Synopsis Louisiana Creole Peoplehood by : Rain Prud'homme-Cranford

Download or read book Louisiana Creole Peoplehood written by Rain Prud'homme-Cranford and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture, Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability, communal dialogue, and community reciprocity. With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and self-determination.

The Cajuns and Creoles

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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book The Cajuns and Creoles written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading Deep within the bayous and swamps of Louisiana resides a population descended from an exodus. These people, called Cajuns or Acadians, were expelled from their homelands. Persecuted and homeless, they traveled hundreds of miles south in search of a new home and ultimately settled in the Pelican State, where they made new lives for themselves free from their British conquerors. Though not always warmly welcomed, they were accepted, allowing them to practice their different culture amidst their new neighbors. Though their home has changed flags over the centuries, the people themselves have remained, retaining a culture that goes back several centuries. While people continue to assimilate, some have continued to live same lifestyles their ancestors did for generations, and they continue to fascinate outsiders, so much so that they occasionally end up being featured on the History Channel. Vibrant, up-tempo vocals and exquisitely soulful harmonies paired with an accordion-heavy and drum-tastic blend of folksy and bluesy instrumentals that one cannot help but tap one's foot to. Rich and creamy, ultra-seasoned bisques. Flavorful, aromatic gumbos packed with tomatoes, smoked sausages, chicken, and shellfish. A heavenly concoction of stewed rice and an assortment of meats and seafood, enlivened with tomatoes, celery, onions, and peppers, otherwise known as "red jambalaya." Striking paintings featuring bright pops of color and featureless silhouettes of men, women, and children with varying shades of brown skin. These are often the first sounds, scents, tastes, and visuals evoked when the word "Creole" is brought up in a conversation. Contrary to popular belief, the term "Creole" is not restricted to the Louisiana Creole, nor the Creoles of color, which collectively refers to the overall ethnic group and different local Creole cultures that blossomed across the Spanish and French colonies in Louisiana, Mississippi, and northwestern Florida. Today, the term is much more complex and may be applied to any of the various Creole cultures around the globe. The word may also be used to describe any language that has spawned from a mixture of languages, or specifically the associated, but distinct tongues developed within Creole communities, as well as the speakers of these languages themselves. Generally speaking, however, the word "Creole" refers to the cultures birthed from the colonial-era racial and cultural mixing between Europeans (mostly of French, Spanish, or Portuguese descent) and Africans, as well as Native Americans, and other local or indigenous peoples in French, Spanish, and Portuguese territories. The merging of the above-mentioned heritages is a process now known as "creolization." Indeed, the image of a caramel-skinned individual with a combination of Afrocentric, Native American, and Caucasian physical features falls within the extensive realm of "Creole culture," but it is important to remember that the Creole peoples come in all complexions, shapes, and sizes, ranging from darker skin coupled with predominantly "African" traits and virtually no visible signs of European ancestry, to sets of blue or green eyes set amongst other ambiguously "Caucasian" characteristics. Beige-skinned individuals sculpted with an assortment of Spanish and Southeast Asian features, as seen in many of the Filipino Creole, also belong to the same category. The Cajuns and Creoles: The History and Legacy of the Unique Ethnic Groups in the American South and Caribbean profiles the people, from their origins to their history across the world. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Cajuns and Creoles like never before.

Cajun Foodways

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736021
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Cajun Foodways by : C. Paige Gutierrez

Download or read book Cajun Foodways written by C. Paige Gutierrez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study shows, Cajuns claim to be unusually food-oriented, unusually talented in preparing of foods, and unusual in their ability to enjoy food. Cajuns' attention to their own traditional foodways is more than merely nostalgia or a clever marketing ploy to lure tourists and sell local products. The symbolic power of Cajun food is deeply rooted in Cajuns' ethnic identity, especially their attachments to their natural environment and their love of being with people, both.

Speaking In Tongues

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis Speaking In Tongues by : John LaFleur, II

Download or read book Speaking In Tongues written by John LaFleur, II and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired from a larger and earlier work, Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions: Before & Since Cajunization, 2012, this book, Speaking In Tongues: Louisiana's 'Cajun' & Creole Languages Tell Their Own Story reveals Louisiana's Old World French language traditions alongside the diverse ethno-historical layers of her creolization, or cultural diversification. Louisiana French (misnomered "Cajun French") and Kouri-Vini (relabeled "Louisiana Creole") are the two related franco-creole forms of French. They are the result of a long marriage of diverse peoples who, together, over 300 years, created the larger cultural traditions of "lower Louisiana" -the ultimate and present-day center of which is southern part of the American State of Louisiana. These languages are tied to a much older and larger tradition which is still found and heard across the former international and interracial French Colonial world-her colonies of Québec to the French Antilles and the Latin Caribbean to West Africa, to Réunion and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean across to old Vietnam, in its own diversifications.

Creole New Orleans

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Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807117743
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Book Synopsis Creole New Orleans by : Arnold R. Hirsch

Download or read book Creole New Orleans written by Arnold R. Hirsch and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively argue is unique among American cities. The focus of Creole New Orleans is on the development of a colonial Franco-African culture in the city, the ways that culture was influenced by the arrival of later immigrants, and the processes that led to the eventual dominance of the Anglo-American community. Essays in the book's first section focus not only on the formation of the curiously blended Franco-African culture but also on how that culture, once established, resisted change and allowed New Orleans to develop along French and African creole lines until the early nineteenth century. Jerah Johnson explores the motives and objectives of Louisiana's French founders, giving that issue the most searching analysis it has yet received. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, in her account of the origins of New Orleans' free black population, offers a new approach to the early history of Africans in colonial Louisiana. The second part of the book focuses on the challenge of incorporating New Orleans into the United States. As Paul F. LaChance points out, the French immigrants who arrived after the Louisiana Purchase slowed the Americanization process by preserving the city's creole culture. Joesph Tregle then presents a clear, concise account of the clash that occurred between white creoles and the many white Americans who during the 1800s migrated to the city. His analysis demonstrates how race finally brought an accommodation between the white creole and American leaders. The third section centers on the evolution of the city's race relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Joseph Logsdon and Caryn Cossé Bell begin by tracing the ethno-cultural fault line that divided black Americans and creole through Reconstruction and the emergence of Jim Crow. Arnold R. Hirsch pursues the themes discerned by Logsdon and Bell from the turn of the century to the 1980s, examining the transformation of the city's racial politics. Collectively, these essays fill a major void in Louisiana history while making a significant contribution to the history of urbanization, ethnicity, and race relations. The book will serve as a cornerstone for future study of the history of New Orleans.