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The Cajuns : Americanization of a people

Title
The Cajuns : Americanization of a people / Shane K. Bernard.
Author
Bernard, Shane K.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2003.

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Description
xxiv, 196 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Summary
The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped that group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. This book explores six decades of Cajun history and analyzes the forces that impacted on Louisiana's Acadiana.
Subject
  • Cajuns > History
  • Cajuns > Cultural assimilation
  • Cajuns > Ethnic identity
  • Americanization
  • HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies
  • Cajuns
  • Ethnic relations
  • Cajun
  • Ethnische Identität
  • Kulturkontakt
  • Amerikanisatie
  • United States > Ethnic relations
  • Louisiana > Ethnic relations
  • Louisiana
  • United States
  • Cajun
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-182) and index.
Contents
Cajuns during wartime -- Atomic-age Cajuns -- Cajuns and the 1960s -- From coonass to Cajun power -- Exploitation and revitalization.
ISBN
  • 1578065224
  • 9781578065226
  • 1578065232
  • 9781578065233
LCCN
2002005652
OCLC
  • ocm49618900
  • 49618900
  • SCSB-1285775
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library