In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana
as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America.
More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been
identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous.
In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic
variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl A.
Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all
the Francophone communities.
Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana
over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable
outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals
ranging from criminals to entrepreneurs who went on to form a
multifaceted society -- one that, unlike other American melting
pots, rests upon a French cultural foundation.
A prolific author and expert on the region, Brasseaux offers
readers an entertaining history of how these diverse peoples
created south Louisiana's famous vibrant culture, interacting with
African Americans, Spaniards, and Protestant Anglos and
encountering influences from southern plantation life and the
Caribbean. He explores in detail three still cohesive components in
the Francophone melting pot, each one famous for having retained a
distinct identity: the Creole communities, both black and white;
the Cajun people; and the state's largest concentration of French
speakers -- the Houma tribe.
A product of thirty years' research, French, Cajun, Creole,
Houma provides a reliable and understandable guide to the ethnic
roots of a region long popular as an international tourist
attraction.
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