Louisiana Creole peoplehood : Afro-indigeneity and community

Goméz, Rain C., (editor.). Barthé, Darryl, Jr., (editor.). Jolivétte, Andrew, 1975- (editor.).

Summary: "Louisiana Creole Peoplehood is a multivocal and collectively structured volume that intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity while foregrounding Black/Indian cultural sustainability. Divided into sections focused on sacred history, land, language, and cultural practices, contributors engage themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, gender, language revitalization, and diaspora. Offering up an understanding of Creole community identity formation and practice at the intersections of both African and Indigenous diasporas, the book combines scholarly analysis with interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions-including integrating the perspectives of community members in response essays. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores the vital ways Afro-Indigenous peoples are asserting their right to exist amidst the backdrops of settler colonialism, anti-Black racism while promoting communal dialogue and community reciprocity"--

Record details

ISBN: 0295749490
ISBN: 9780295749495
Physical Description: 289 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
print
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Aou komensé : Louisiana Creole land, community, and recognition -- Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, and Darryl Barthé -- Post-contact peoplehood : re-defining Louisiana Creole indigeneity / Rain Prud'homme-Cranford -- Speak white, speak black, speak American : assimilation in Creole New Orleans / Darryl Barthé -- Acadian/African/Indigenous trinity : an identity mosaic from Nova Scotia to New Orleans / Annalyssa Gypsy Murphy -- Bulbancha is still a place : decolonizing the tricentennial of New Orleans / Jeffrey Darensbourg -- Filé man : Creole food harvesting and sovereignty / Tracey Colson Antee -- Telling it right : in search of the Ishak / Jeffrey Darensbourg -- A perfect circle bound in chains : Creole-NDN health, historical trauma, and settler-colonialism / T. Shawnee -- Language revitalization, race, and resistance in Creole Louisiana / Oliver Mayeaux -- No body sings the blues like a FAT BODY : gender, race, and eco-colonialism / Rain Prud'homme-Cranford -- Don't scratch my washboard but you can pull my fiddle : negotiating queerness in the Creole diaspora / Andrew Jolivétte -- On passing and survival : memories of a Choctaw-Apache / Thomas Parrie -- LA to L.A. : growing-up NDN-Creole / Carolyn M. Dunn -- Louisiana's Creole-metis, Euro- Afro- & Caribbean foodways / John LeFleur with Danny Lee Landreneau-Petrella -- Louisiana Creole testimonials : interview / Ken Jolivétte -- Louisiana Creole testimonials : reflection / Pierre Brooks Metoyer -- Conclusion: Nouzot Kréyol : Louisiana Creole peoplehood or all our relations resisting settler violence and indigenous erasure / Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, Darryl Barthé, and Andrew Jolivétte -- In memoriam: Reflections on Janet Ravare Colson : Cane River Creole matriarch.