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Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color /
"In her introduction, Sybil Kein immediately addresses perhaps the book's most important - and controversial - question: who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut. Of European, African, or Caribbean mixed descent, they are a people of color and Francophone dialect native to south Lo...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
©2000.
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Table of Contents:
- People of color in Louisiana /
- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
- 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.