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Creole New Orleans : race and Americanization /
This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively argue is unique among American cities. The focus of Creole New Orleans is on the development of a colonial Franco-African culture in the city, the ways that cult...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
©1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The French and African founders. Colonial New Orleans : a fragment of the eighteenth-century French ethos / Jerah Johnson ; The formation of Afro-Creole culture / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
- Part II: The American challenge. The foreign French / Paul F. Lachance ; Creoles and Americans / Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.
- Part III: Franco-Africans and African-Americans. The Americanization of Black New Orleans, 1850-1900 / Joseph Logsdon and Caryn Cossé Bell ; Simply a matter of Black and White : the transformation of race and politics in twentieth-century New Orleans / Arnold R. Hirsch.