Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
I: HISTORY......Page 26
1 People of Color in Louisiana......Page 28
2 Marcus Christian\'s Treatment of Les Gens de Couleur Libre......Page 67
3 Plaçage and the Louisiana Gens de Couleur Libre: How Race and Sex Defined the Lifestyles of Free Women of Color......Page 82
4 Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The History Behind the Music......Page 96
5 The Yankee Hugging the Creole: Reading Dion Boucicault\'s The Octoroon......Page 126
6 The Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern Literature......Page 142
II: LEGACY......Page 180
7 Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Repossessed......Page 182
8 New Orleans Creole Expatriates in France: Romance and Reality......Page 204
9 Visible Means of Support: Businesses, Professions, and Trades of Free People of Color......Page 233
10 The Origin of Louisiana Creole......Page 248
11 Louisiana Creole Food Culture: Afro-Caribbean Links......Page 269
12 Light, Bright, Damn Near White: Race, the Politics of Genealogy, and the Strange Case of Susie Guillory......Page 277
13 Creole Poets on the Verge of a Nation......Page 301
14 \"Lost Boundaries\": Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans......Page 320
15 Creole Culture in the Poetry of Sybil Kein......Page 342
Contributors......Page 352
B......Page 356
C......Page 357
D......Page 359
F......Page 360
H......Page 361
L......Page 362
M......Page 363
P......Page 365
R......Page 366
S......Page 367
V......Page 368
Y......Page 369