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Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

Author : Rain Prud'homme-Cranford
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749504
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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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.

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.

The Forgotten People

Author : Gary B. Mills
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807155349
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten People written by Gary B. Mills and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly capable, Cane River's Creoles of color enjoyed economic privileges but led politically constricted lives. Like their white neighbors, they publicly supported the Confederacy and suffered the same depredations of war and political and social uncertainties of Reconstruction. Unlike white Creoles, however, they did not recover amid cycles of Redeemer and Jim Crow politics. First published in 1977, The Forgotten People offers a socioeconomic history of this widely publicized but also highly romanticized community -- a minority group that fit no stereotypes, refused all outside labels, and still struggles to explain its identity in a world mystified by Creolism. Now revised and significantly expanded, this time-honored work revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This new edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves. The Forgotten People corrects misassumptions about the origin of key properties in the Cane River National Heritage Area and demonstrates how historians reconstruct the lives of the enslaved, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised.

Louisiana Creoles

Author : Andrew Jolivétte
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073911896X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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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.

The Creoles of Louisiana

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner's sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creoles of Louisiana written by George Washington Cable and published by New York, C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1884 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creole New Orleans

Author : Arnold R. Hirsch
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807117743
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (177 download)

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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.

The Cajuns

Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800923
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Cajuns written by Shane K. Bernard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, “Cajun” became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the advent of a new information age launched “Cyber-Cajuns” onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it. A Cajun himself, the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.

Louisiana Creole Literature

Author : Catharine Savage Brosman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617039101
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Creole Literature written by Catharine Savage Brosman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad overview of the tremendous achievement of Louisiana writers in the Creole tradition

Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949

Author : Darryl Barthé, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175536
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896–1949 written by Darryl Barthé, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive scholarship has emerged within the last twenty-five years on the role of Louisiana Creoles in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, yet academic work on the history of Creoles in New Orleans after the Civil War and into the twentieth century remains sparse. Darryl Barthé Jr.’s Becoming American in Creole New Orleans moves the history of New Orleans’ Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles’ encounters with Anglo-American modernism. Barthé tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans’s voluntary associations and social sodalities, as well as its public and parochial schools, where Creole linguistic distinctiveness faded over the twentieth century because of English-only education and the establishment of Anglo-American economic hegemony. Barthé argues that despite the existence of ethnic repression, the transition from Creole to American identity was largely voluntary as Creoles embraced the economic opportunities afforded to them through learning English. “Becoming American” entailed the adoption of a distinctly American language and a distinctly American racialized caste system. Navigating that caste system was always tricky for Creoles, who had existed in between French and Spanish color lines that recognized them as a group separate from Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians even though they often shared kinship ties with all of these groups. Creoles responded to the pressures associated with the demands of the American caste system by passing as white people (completely or situationally) or, more often, redefining themselves as Blacks. Becoming American in Creole New Orleans offers a critical comparative analysis of “Creolization” and “Americanization,” social processes that often worked in opposition to each another during the nineteenth century and that would continue to frame the limits of Creole identity and cultural expression in New Orleans until the mid-twentieth century. As such, it offers intersectional engagement with subjects that have historically fallen under the purview of sociology, anthropology, and critical theory, including discourses on whiteness, métissage/métisajé, and critical mixed-race theory.

Our People and Our History

Author : Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807127407
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Our People and Our History written by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated and Edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants, Daughter of the Cross In Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Although he received little formal education, Desdunes -- himself a Creole -- was an articulate observer of his times and culture. His portraits of black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists, and writers are powerful evidence of the extraordinary role that Creoles played in the cultural and political history of Louisiana.

Creoles of Color of the Gulf South

Author : James H. Dormon
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499173
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Creoles of Color of the Gulf South written by James H. Dormon and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight essays explore the social and historical foundations of mixed-race people in Louisiana and along the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico, specific features of Gulf Creole culture, and ethnic and identity developments during the 20th century. The cultural features include Mardi Gras, zydeco music, and the place of the language in the larger New World French Creole. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 2274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swamp Souths

Author : Kirstin L. Squint
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173517
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Swamp Souths written by Kirstin L. Squint and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical introduction and afterword, Swamp Souths introduces new frameworks for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with an emphasis on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime. The volume analyzes canonical writers such as William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, but it also investigates contemporary literary works by Randall Kenan and Karen Russell, the films Beasts of the Southern Wild and My Louisiana Love, and music ranging from swamp rock and zydeco to Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. Navigating a complex assemblage of places and ecosystems, the contributors argue with passion and critical rigor for considering anew the literary and cultural work that swamps do. This dynamic collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and political crisis.

Africans In Colonial Louisiana

Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807119997
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Africans In Colonial Louisiana written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state. In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines--history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore--in her analysis. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. She gives special consideration to race mixture between Africans, Indians, and whites; to the role of slaves in the Natchez Uprising of 1729; to slave unrest and conspiracies, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795; and to the development of communities of runaway slaves in the cypress swamps around New Orleans.

Louisiana Creole

Author : Charles Augustine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793455703
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Creole written by Charles Augustine and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAMA GOES ON MUCH NEEDED VACATION - TO THE CRAZY HOUSE! MR. CHAVEZ REGAL VERSES MR. HANDSOME BEER. THUMPER: NOTORIOUS FOR HIS PRISON RAPES. "DON'T CALL THE COPS! THEY MIGHT TAKE DADDY TO JAIL!" HERE IT IS ... MY BIG FAT P__SY! TAKE IT LIKE A MAN, NI__ER! THE STINKY STICKY SMELLY WET, TO-DO. YEAH BABAY! THE NEGLIGEE PARADE! "MY CIGARETTES, MY COFFEE, MY SOAP OPERAS." "PID-D-PAT" "TONK" "R-C COLAS" AND "MOON PIES." "SHE'S ONE TOUGH OLD BIDDY" "THE OLDER HEN MAKES A BETTER STEW!" THE "HATE WHITEY MOVEMENT" BEGINS." "UNDERCOVER HONKY: A WHITE DEVIL IN A BLACK MAN'S SKIN." A NEW BREED OF YOUNG WHITE PEOPLE! SOUTHERNERS MAKE ME EMBARASSED TO BE WHITE. UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND WHITEY! THE "COCK" DICHODOMY. MORE "GIT WHITEY" "HATE WHITEY" "GRAY BITCHES" MINDSET. 63-YEAR-OLD WHITE WOMAN WOED BY 25-YEAR-OLD BLACK MAN ... "I can't go out with you!..". "Is it because I'm black?.."."No ... my youngest son is your age!..". FIRST KISS! "ETERNAL STUDENT," ATTENDING UNIVERSITY - NOT TO STUDY - BUT TO SAY "I'M GOING TO COLLEGE," GET GRANT, LOANS, CHECKS CANDLES, WILD FLOWERS AND "COLD DUCK" CHAMPAGNE. THE "I WANTA BE 'A DRUG DEALER' OR 'A PIMP'" MAKES ITS DEBUTE: REQUIREMENTS: INCLUDE: "PIMP-JUICE," LEATHER COAT, COKE-SPOON "BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL" NOW - IT'S ALLTHE RAVE!" 17-YEAR-OLD WHITE GIRLS: REFORM-SCHOOL ESCAPEES IN A STOLEN CAR! 18 AND 19-YEAR-OLD CHICKEN-BOY MEAT-FEAST FOR CHICKEN-HAWKS. THE SLEASEST HOTEL IN SAN FRANCISCO'S REDLIGHT DISTRICT! MAMA SOONE TO GAY SOLDIER (DURING KOREAN WAR): "Ronnie, you 'Benny-Boy' ('Boy-Girl, '); Mama Soone find you nice young boy!" HO'S, HERPES, "HAMBURGER/HOTDOG PIMPS," THIEVES, ORGIES. JAILBIRD ONE-UPS OTHER SHITBIRD - SARDINES AND SMOKING JACKET. "NAWLEANS' FIRST BLACK MALE NUDE DANCER IN FRENCH QUARTER! JEN (NUDE DANCER) AND HER BO, ROB "THE SWABBER. "MACKS" (PIMPS): SUGAR-DADDY-PIMPS, GORILLA-PIMPS, HAMBURGER/HOTDOG PIMPS, GANGSTA-PIMPS, FREAKY-DEEKY-PIMPS AND THEIR CUM-FREAK HOES. JEWISH PEOPLE SAY, "DO THREE MITZAHS (GOOD DEEDS) A DAY." Please! No! Don't rape me! Oh God! PRAISE THE LORD! SENTENCED TO A YEAR WITH "JEWS FOR JESUS." BUMPING INTO SOMEONE INSIDE THE GOODWILL BOX WHILE RAIDING IT! I WAS A 25 YEAR OLD SENIOR CITIZEN SHOWING WHITE PEOPLE - "NOT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE BAD! THEY DREAM OF OWNING A DOUBLEWIDE. FOOD FOR THE FLIGHT: PICKLED PIG'S FEET AND PIG LIPS. WHILE TRIPPING ON PSYCHEDELICS. CASANOVA - THE TALE OF A STUD HOG!"Louisiana Creole," is a 322 page fiction novel about how life was for a half-black/half-Creole boy growing up in rural Louisiana during the pre/post-integration years. As a result of the Old South's archaic "color-hierarchy" system that prevailed at this juncture in American history, the main character Lucien Pichon and his siblings are not white enough to be Creole, nor black enough to be fully accepted by the Negroes.(The color hierarchy was a discriminatory system utilized by Colored people within the African-American community to discriminate against their own. The gist of this heinous system was: the more Caucasian looking, "fairer" (whiter) complexioned you were; the more handsome, prettier, honest and mentally superior you were.)Through a series of interconnecting hysterical vignettes a vivid portrait is painted of what black/white race relations were like in the United States (US), during the 1950s, 60s, 70s and into the 1980s.At seventeen Lucien joins the Navy and subjects the world-at-large to his color bias hierarchy mindset. While he appears Negroid looking, subconsciously he sees himself as being more Anglo appearing, hence more handsome and mentally superior.In turn Lucien's warped thinking results in him inanely treating his Black brethren negatively and sucking-up to Whites. This is until Whites bring home - he looks just like the "rest of them!" It is then that he realizes what a horrible human being he has been.

The Creoles

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Creoles written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Little by little, the bird makes its nest." - Old Haitian Creole Proverb 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 Creoles: The History and Legacy of Some of the Americas' Most Unique Ethnic Groups profiles the people, from their origins to their histories across the Americas. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Creoles like never before.

The Free People of Color of New Orleans

Author : Mary Gehman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692390412
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Free People of Color of New Orleans written by Mary Gehman and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antebellum New Orleans was home to thousands of urbane, educated and well to do free blacks. The French called them les gens de couleur libre, the free people of color; after the Civil War they were known as the Creoles of color, shortened today to simply Creoles. Theirs was an ambiguous status, sharing the French Language, Catholic religion and European education of the elite whites, but also keeping African and indigenous American influences from their early heritage. This is their story, rarely mentioned in conventional histories, and often misunderstood today, even by some of their descendants. The book is an easy read that lays out the chronology of events, laws and circumstances that formed the unique racial mix of New Orleans and much of Louisiana. Includes end notes, suggested bibliography, index, and a listing of family names of free people of color that appear in the early years of the Louisiana Territory. A must-have for genealogists, historians, and students of African-American history.