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Title:

Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color / edited by Sybil Kein.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xxiv, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Creoles--Louisiana--History.
Creoles--Louisiana--Social conditions.
Free African Americans--Louisiana--History.
Free African Americans--Louisiana--Social conditions.
Creoles in literature.
Louisiana--History.
Louisiana--Race relations.
Louisiana--In literature.

Other Authors:

Kein, Sybil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Creole culture in the poetry of Sybil Kein /r Mary L. Morton. Arthé A. Anthony -- Marcus Christian's treatment of Les gens de couleur libre / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Plaçage and the Louisiana Gens de couleur libre : how race and sex defined the lifestyles of free women of color / Joan M. Martin -- Composers of color of nineteenth-century New Orleans : the history behind the music / Lester Sullivan -- Yankee hugging the Creole : reading Dion Boucicault's The octoroon / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern literature / Sybil Kein -- Marie Laveau : the voodoo queen repossessed / Barbara Rosendale Duggal -- New Orleans Creole expatriates in France : romance and reality / Michel Fabre -- Visible means of support : businesses, professions, and trades of free people of color / Mary Gehman -- Origin of Louisiana Creole / Fehintola Mosadomi -- Louisiana Creole food culture : Afro-Caribbean links / Sybil Kein -- Light, bright, and damn near white : race, the politics of genealogy, and the strange case of Susie Guillory / Anthony G. Barthelemy -- Creole poets on the verge of a nation / Caroline Senter -- "Lost boundaries" : racial passing and poverty in segregated New Orleans / Arthé A. Anthony -- Creole culture in the poetry of Sybil Kein /r Mary L. Morton.

ISBN:

9780807126011 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807126012 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807125328 (alk. paper)
0807125326 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43567353

LCCN:

00008449

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)