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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.
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.
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