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Title

Creoles of color of the Gulf South / edited by James H. Dormon.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

Dormon, James H.

Description

xv, 190 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Consisting of eight original essays by noted scholars, this volume examines the history and culture of a unique population - those peoples in the Gulf region who descended from the colonial and antebellum free persons of color and who represent the middle ground in the region's "tri-racial" social order. Although the book begins with an analysis of the Creole population's origins in the New Orleans area, the subsequent essays focus on the Creole communities outside that city. Throughout the volume the contributors demonstrate the persistence of the Creole ethnic identity. Included are examinations of Creole populations in the cities of Pensacola and Mobile, as well as those in the bayou and prairie regions of Louisiana. In addition to dealing with sociohistorical aspects of the Creole experience, the book features essays that examine language, music, and folklore. The concluding essay, which cuts across several disciplines, covers the late twentieth-century revitalization of the Gulf Creole communities. With its multidimensional, cross-disciplinary emphasis, Creoles of Color of the Gulf South constitutes an especially notable contribution to the current scholarly interest in ethnic minorities and racial dynamics in American history and culture.

Subject

• Creoles > Gulf States
• Creoles > Louisiana
• Gulf States > Social life and customs
• Louisiana > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Origins of New Orleans's free Creoles of color / Kimberly S. Hanger -- The free Creoles of color of the antebellum gulf ports of Mobile and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould -- Socioeconomic dynamics among the Gulf Creole populations / Loren Schweninger -- Creoles of color in Louisiana's bayou country, 1766-1877 / Carl A. Brasseaux -- Mardi Gras in L'Anse de 'Prien Noir / Nicholas R. Spitzer -- Zydeco/Zarico : the term and the tradition / Barry Jean Ancelet -- The place of Louisiana Creole among the New World French Creoles / Albert Valdman -- Ethnicity and identity / James H. Dormon.

ISBN

• 0870499165 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0870499173 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95004432^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library