Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

Afro-Indigeneity and Community

Rain Prud'homme-Cranford editor Andrew J Jolivette editor Darryl Barthé editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Published:22nd Mar '22

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Transforms our understanding of Louisiana Creole community identity formation and practice

Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture, Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability, communal dialogue, and community reciprocity.

With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and self-determination.

"Creatively puts writings by scholars into conversation with community responders. . . The scope of themes encompassed in this book—language, food, health, gender, and ceremony—is impressive. So is the occupational and geographical range of its contributors—whether they be poets, educators, and activists working inside Louisiana or scholars teaching diverse disciplines at distant universities."

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ISBN: 9780295749488

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 617g

304 pages