Creole The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color

Name: Creole The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
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ISBN: 9780807126011

ISBN-10: 0807126012

ISBN-13: 9780807126011

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sybil Kein

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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
People of Color in Louisiana	p. 3
Marcus Christian's Treatment of Les Gens de Couleur Libre	p. 42
Placage and the Louisiana Gens de Couleur Libre: How Race and Sex Defined the Lifestyles of Free Women of Color	p. 57
Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The History Behind the Music	p. 71
The Yankee Hugging the Creole: Reading Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon	p. 101
The Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern Literature	p. 117
Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Repossessed	p. 157
New Orleans Creole Expatriates in France: Romance and Reality	p. 179
Visible Means of Support: Businesses, Professions, and Trades of Free People of Color	p. 208
The Origin of Louisiana Creole	p. 223
Louisiana Creole Food Culture: Afro-Caribbean Links	p. 244
Light, Bright, Damn Near White: Race, the Politics of Genealogy, and the Strange Case of Susie Guillory	p. 252
Creole Poets on the Verge of a Nation	p. 276
"Lost Boundaries": Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans	p. 295
Creole Culture in the Poetry of Sybil Kein	p. 317
Contributors	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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