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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma - A Primer on Francophone Louisiana (Paperback)
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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma - A Primer on Francophone Louisiana (Paperback)
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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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