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Book Release & Rountable Discussion of
Cultural Representation in Native America, AltaMira Press 2006
Book Annoucement & Publication of
Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, January 2007
available at http://www.barnesandnoble.com or http://www.amazon.com
Event Date:
March 22nd, 2007 4:00-5:30 PM
EP Room 116
San Francisco State University
Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity
By Andrew J. Jolivétte
Foreword by Paula Gunn Allen
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Discounted Price: $51.00 (15% off)
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Cloth 0-7391-1896-X / 978-0-7391-1896-2 Dec 2006 144pp
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Louisiana Creoles examines the recent efforts of the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center to document and preserve the distinct ethnic heritage of this unique American population. Dr. Andrew Jolivétte uses sociological inquiry to analyze the factors that influence ethnic and racial identity formation and community construction among Creoles of Color living in and out of the state of Louisiana. By including the voices of contemporary Creole organizations, preservationists, and grassroots organizers, Jolivétte offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the ways in which history has impacted the ability of Creoles to self-define their own community in political, social, and legal contexts. This book raises important questions concerning the process of cultural formation and the politics of ethnic categories for multiracial communities in the United States. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the themes found throughout Louisiana Creoles are especially relevant for students of sociology and those interested in identity issues.
About the Author
Andrew Jolivétte is assistant professor in the American Indian studies department at San Francisco State University.
Table of Contents for Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity
* Foreword
Paula Gunn Allen
o Introduction: Who Is White?
o The Reconfiguring of Creole-Indian Identity in Louisiana: Situating the Other in Social Discourse
o Including Native Identity in the Creole of Color Movement: Ethnic Renewal and Cultural Revival within a Black-Indian Population
o Migratory Movement: The Politics of Ethnic Community (Re)Construction Among Creoles of Color, 1920-1940
o Examining the Regional and Multi-Generational Context of Creole and American Indian Identity
o Conclusion: (Re)Imagining and (Re)Writing Racial Categories
"Louisiana Creoles is an insightful exploration of the complex experience of one of the longest-standing 'multiracial' communities in the United States as well as of contemporary individual and organizational efforts to document and preserve that experience. A major contribution to not only the growing body of literature on multiraciality, but also the larger body of research on questions of racial, gender, class, and cultural formations and the construction of identity."—G. Reginald Daniel, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?
"Andrew Jolivette has provided the reading audience with an excellent study of a much needed topic: the historical and contemporary experiences of Creole people outside of the New Orleans area. A must read for those interested in America's mixed-race phenomenon."—Troy Johnson, chair, American Indian Studies, California State University
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