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Notes on the Birth of Cajun Ethnic Identity


A Brief History of Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco Music

According to Alan Lomax in his notes to a CD collection of field recordings in Louisiana that he and his father, John Lomax, completed in the 1930s, "the Cajun ...

Cajun Texans - Texas Almanac

Cajun Texas are descendants of French colonists, and they first arrived in Texas in the spring of 1770. The group of 30 refugees, who were trying to get to ...

Cajun and Zydeco: Flavors of Southwest Louisiana Teacher's Guide

It's out of this exchange that modern. Cajun and zydeco music were born and continue to thrive. Many now regard them as cultural treasures. In this lesson, ...

Cajun or Creole? - National Geographic

According to LaFleur, the term Creole originally applied to the children of the first colonists to indicate that they had been born in the New ...

Cajun and Creole cultures aren't so different after all

Cajuns are the Louisiana descendants of the exiled Acadians, and scholars say they identified as Creole well into the 20th century.

The Delicious Cajun Cuisine 101: History and Recipes!

The origins of Cajun cooking trace back to the settlement of Louisiana by French immigrants and their adaptation to local ingredients.

Cajuns and Creoles: The French Gulf Coast | Facing South

European and Anglo groups in southern Louisiana were also largely absorbed by Cajun culture, and the major socio-cultural division that remains ...

We have never been Cajun: créolization and whitened identity at the ...

... racial system in Louisiana would erase this history from mainstream memory. The nineteenth century in Louisiana brought immigration, cultural interfusion, class.

Cajuns Facts for Kids

The Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the US state of Louisiana, and in the Canadian maritimes provinces as well as Quebec.

Acadian in the Southern Imagination: Race and Identity in ...

Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music.(American. Musicspheres.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. Pp. Xv, 317. $35.00, ...

Contre Vents, contre Marées: The Revitalization of Cajun French by ...

Cajuns consider to be integral parts of their ethnic and cultural identity: their faith, food, music, and language. 2.1 Faith in the Cajun ...

Racial and Ethnic Groups in the Gulf of Mexico Region

For instance, although only about. 7.8% of the residents in the re- gion identify as Cajun/French, this group has had significant effects on shaping the ...

The Cajunization of French Louisiana: Forging a Regional Identity

viewed from the outside, contrasts sharply with the cultural variety of its communities. KEY WORDS: French Louisiana, Cajun, Creole, culture region, identity.

The Creole Community in The United States of America, a story

In Acadiana, newly impoverished White Creoles often intermarried with Cajuns and were assimilated mainly into Cajun culture. Many names of French Creole origin, ...

Cajun Music - Abbeville Institute

In Louisiana, this brought all ethnic groups down to the already-impoverished level of the Acadians, and they began to mix and intermarry ...

"White" doesn't define me. I'm Cajun. - The Race Card Project

I live in Acadiana, where Cajuns are plentiful, but I know that only a few hours drive north, east, or west, and I will find myself the ethnic minority.

Documentary explores Cajun identity | Eunice News

It also explores how cultural and racial labels in Louisiana have shifted, especially over the past 70 years, and considers the stakes of ...

CAJUN MARDI GRAS: CULTURAL OBJECTIFICATION AND ... - Gale

The label Creole, once generically ascribed to Afro-French and non-Acadian whites alike, was symbolically appropriated by African Americans, perhaps due to the ...

Cultural Catholicism in Cajun-Creole Louisiana

All aspects of life are permeated by this influence: the stages of life from birth to death, household routines and culinary practices, planting and weather ...

Foodways and Cajun Identity (Louisiana) - ProQuest

I show that foodways are more than mere indicators of ethnicity; they also carry information about the nature of that ethnicity. Through foodways, Cajuns ...