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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians - Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (Paperback)
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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians - Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (Paperback)
Series: Early American Studies
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Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material
evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines
perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and
demonstrates that material culture-especially dress-was central to
the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's
seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal
policy-Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic
subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that
Indians could become French through religion, language, and
culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a
risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French
could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had
effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana
became a province of New France in 1682. But it was here, in Upper
Louisiana, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally
claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of
the policy's success lay in the appearance and material possessions
of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen. Through a sophisticated
interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, Wild Frenchmen
and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading
of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America.
While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in
this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the
investigation of colonial societies-for the process of colonization
was built on encounters mediated by appearance.
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