Angel Adams Parham
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190624750
- eISBN:
- 9780190624781
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190624750.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Chapter 5 examines the experience of white Louisiana Creoles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries where many have blended into the mainstream white Louisiana community. Although most white ...
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Chapter 5 examines the experience of white Louisiana Creoles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries where many have blended into the mainstream white Louisiana community. Although most white Louisianans fully lost the connection to their Creole identity, some were able to hold on to it, and others are beginning to rediscover it. Even in these cases, however, the racial cloud of Anglo-American assumptions about Creoles’ racial impurity continues to hang over them so that few would call themselves Creole unless they were with others who understood exactly what they meant. The stories in this chapter emerge from rich interview data with white St. Domingue/Haiti descendants and from oral histories with white Creoles.Less
Chapter 5 examines the experience of white Louisiana Creoles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries where many have blended into the mainstream white Louisiana community. Although most white Louisianans fully lost the connection to their Creole identity, some were able to hold on to it, and others are beginning to rediscover it. Even in these cases, however, the racial cloud of Anglo-American assumptions about Creoles’ racial impurity continues to hang over them so that few would call themselves Creole unless they were with others who understood exactly what they meant. The stories in this chapter emerge from rich interview data with white St. Domingue/Haiti descendants and from oral histories with white Creoles.
Catharine Savage Brosman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039102
- eISBN:
- 9781621039938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039102.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter considers initially how past literary products and contemporary ones are inevitably judged differently. It then reviews the attraction that poetry had for the Free People of Color and ...
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This chapter considers initially how past literary products and contemporary ones are inevitably judged differently. It then reviews the attraction that poetry had for the Free People of Color and considers why their descendants have been drawn to it especially. The connections between poetry and jazz are noted, as well as the strong preference for free verse by all today’s Creole poets. The New Orleans literary milieu is sketched: the Free Southern Theatre, supportive bookstores, poetry clubs, presses, anthologies. Several black poets of Creole heritage receive close attention: in chronological order, Bob Kaufman, Brenda Marie Osbey (whose 2012 book History is criticized), Mona Lisa Saloy, Sybil Kein, Arthur Pfister. White poets of Creole heritage or connected to Creoles are Sheryl St. Germain, Katherine Soniat, and Lee Grue (certain other poets mentioned briefly for the sake of completeness have only tenuous connections with the Creole world).Less
This chapter considers initially how past literary products and contemporary ones are inevitably judged differently. It then reviews the attraction that poetry had for the Free People of Color and considers why their descendants have been drawn to it especially. The connections between poetry and jazz are noted, as well as the strong preference for free verse by all today’s Creole poets. The New Orleans literary milieu is sketched: the Free Southern Theatre, supportive bookstores, poetry clubs, presses, anthologies. Several black poets of Creole heritage receive close attention: in chronological order, Bob Kaufman, Brenda Marie Osbey (whose 2012 book History is criticized), Mona Lisa Saloy, Sybil Kein, Arthur Pfister. White poets of Creole heritage or connected to Creoles are Sheryl St. Germain, Katherine Soniat, and Lee Grue (certain other poets mentioned briefly for the sake of completeness have only tenuous connections with the Creole world).
