Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color / edited by Sybil Kein.
| Other author | Kein, Sybil. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2000. |
| Description | xxiv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little-324066--305131021388Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00008449 |
| ISBN | 0807125326 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807126012 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | F380.C87 C7 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |