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Cajun Country

Book by Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay D. Edwards, Glen Pitre; University Press of Mississippi, 1991

Subjects:

Cajuns--Louisiana--Folklore, Cajuns--Louisiana--Social Life And Customs, Folklore--Louisiana, Louisiana--Social Life And Customs, Material Culture--Louisiana

Collections: Entire Library

...ISBN 0-87805-467-7 paper 1. Cajuns--Social life and customs. 2. Louisiana...the five-volume project report, The Cajuns, Their History and Culture , published...eventually produced the group called Cajuns as close as Anglo-Americans could come...
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Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877

Book by Carl A. Brasseaux; University Press of Mississippi, 1992

Subjects:

Cajuns--History--19th Century, Louisiana--History--1803-1865

Collections: History, Entire Library

A study of unusual documentary resources that disclose the processes of cultural evolution that transformed the Acadians of early Louisiana into the Cajuns of today.
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Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action

Book by Mark Mattern; Rutgers University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Political Anthropology, Popular Music--Political Aspects, Popular Music--Social Aspects

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...while affirming their membership in an extensive community of Cajuns and supporters committed to cultural and economic revitalization...1 In this book, I address the extent to which Chileans, Cajuns, and American Indians in Minnesota and western Wisconsin...
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Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

Book by Marcia Gaudet, James C. McDonald; University Press of Mississippi, 2003

Subjects:

Folklore--Louisiana, Louisiana--Civilization, Louisiana--Social Life And Customs, Popular Culture--Louisiana

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Richard Folk Veneration among the Cajuns 103 Marcia Gaudet Chapter...Uses of Ethnic/Regional Foodways Cajuns and Crawfish in South Louisiana 134...It is important to note, however, that Cajuns and Creoles are also a part of American...
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The Southern Poor-White from Lubberland to Tobacco Road

Book by Shields McIlwaine; University of Oklahoma Press, 1939

Subjects:

Americans In Literature, Southern States--Social Conditions

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...AND OTHERS 128 VI. PICTURESQUE BACKGROUNDS AND LOUISIANA CAJUNS: GEORGE W. CABLE AND KATE CHOPIN 134 VII. NATURALISTIC...tar-heel bred, And when I die, Ill be a tar-heel dead . And the Cajuns--Louisiana French of Canadian origin--while always aware of...

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The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

Journal article by David W. Moore; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Cajuns: Americanization of a People (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. by David W. Moore The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. By Shane K. Bernard...lost the ability to speak French" (p. xii). He, and Cajuns in general, Bernard concludes, had been "Americanized...
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Endogamy Among Louisiana Cajuns: A Social Class Explanation

Journal article by Carl L. Bankston III, Jacques Henry; Social Forces, Vol. 77, 1999

Subjects:

Social Problems, Social Service

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Endogamy among Louisiana Cajuns: A Social Class Explanation...high rate of endogamy among Louisiana Cajuns. It suggests that a continuing high...Louisiana who identify themselves as Cajuns ( Arceneaux 1982; Esman 1985...
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Let the Good Times Unroll: Music and Race Relations in Southwest Louisiana

Journal article by Mark Mattern; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, 1997

Subjects:

Cajuns--Music, Creoles--Music, Louisiana--Music, Race relations--Louisiana

Collections: Entire Library

...upbeat events of both black Creoles and Cajuns living in Southwest Louisiana. Black Creoles...into relations between black Creoles and Cajuns, interpreting music as a social arena...some discontent between black Creoles and Cajuns. Beginning in the 1960s, Cajun musicians...
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Cajun Mardi Gras: Cultural Objectification and Symbolic Appropriation in a French Tradition(1)

Journal article by Rocky L. Sexton; Ethnology, Vol. 38, 1999

Subjects:

Cajuns--Rites and ceremonies, Carnival--Social aspects, Creoles--Rites and ceremonies, Ethnology--Louisiana, Louisiana--Rites and ceremonies

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...sharecropping neighborhoods that included Cajuns, white Creoles, and acculturated Anglo-Americans...small core of young, college-educated Cajuns who sought to redirect the organizations...widespread among children of these "reluctant Cajuns." They were exposed to Cajun-ness in its...
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Multi-Cultural Aesthetic in Kate Chopin's "A Gentleman of Bayou Teche."

Journal article by David Steiling; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994

Subjects:

Cajuns--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Social aspects, Chopin, Kate--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Local color in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of Martinette and her father. In Aunt Diceys view, Sublet intends to use the picture of Evariste to illustrate the "lowdown Cajuns oBayeh Teche!" Dicey recounts how Sublets son had entered her cabin unannounced and asked to take her photograph while she was...

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Joyeux No'l!: Share in a New Orleans Christmas

Magazine article by Patti Nickell; World and I, Vol. 14, December 1999

Subjects:

Cajuns--History, Creoles--History, New Orleans, Louisiana--Description and travel

Collections: Entire Library

...and nineteenth-century New Orleans. Cajuns, on the other hand, descended from the...the citys notorious Quadroon Ballrooms, Cajuns ent their days hunting, fishing, and trapping...primarily St. James and St. John the Baptist--Cajuns never were a major influence in the life...
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Allons Au Zydeco

Magazine article by Ben Sandmel; World and I, Vol. 14, August 1999

Subjects:

Certia Inc.

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...of the nineteenth century, allowing the Cajuns and Creoles to develop close-knit ethnic...urbane French society of New Orleans. The Cajuns were not wealthy, as a rule, and did not...economic chaos of Reconstruction. Few Cajuns enjoyed a lifestyle of white linen suits...
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A States' Right Initiative That's Long Overdue

Magazine article by Walter Williams; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, August 9, 1999

Subjects:

Constitutional amendments--Louisiana, Louisiana--Politics and government, State rights--Appreciation

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A States Right Initiative Thats Long Overdue by Walter Williams Reading "Cajuns Uncaged," an article in Aprils Chronicles magazine, made my day. Last October, by nearly a 60 percent majority, Louisianans approved...
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The Nutria Problem

Magazine article by Calvin Trillin; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 275, February 1995

Subjects:

Cajun cooking--Humor and anecdotes, Cookery, Cajun--Humor and anecdotes, Coypu--Usage, Louisiana--Natural history, Nutria--Usage

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...century by the people who became known as Cajuns, there are literally millions of nutrias...on it." It was immaterial that the only Cajuns who had ever eaten blackened redfish were...traveled to New Orleans, a city where Cajuns had traditionally been ridiculed as ignorant...
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All the Duke's Men

Magazine article by Andrew W. Robertson; National Review, Vol. 43, December 16, 1991

Subjects:

Duke, David--Political activity, Louisiana--Political aspects, Politics--Louisiana, Populism--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...relative tolerance is the legacy of the Cajuns, descendants of the eighteenth-century...parishes, because he could depend on the Cajuns to go easier on the blacks. Dukes evangelical...his links with the Klan have repelled Cajuns, who in previous elections preferred the...

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French Canadians Trek to Louisiana to Meet Their Kin: Acadians Celebrate Ties to Cajuns

Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, August 10, 1999

Subjects:

Louisiana

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...their kin: Acadians celebrate ties to Cajuns by Robert Buckman LAFAYETTE...of Canadas Maritime Provinces and the Cajuns of Louisiana, one people separated by...perished. This diaspora, which Acadians and Cajuns still call le grand derangement, was immortalized...
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Famous Cajun's All the Rage as Fabulous Foe at Gathering

Newspaper article by Bill Sammon; The Washington Times, August 2, 2000

Subjects:

Carville, James

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Famous Cajuns all the rage as fabulous foe at gathering. by Bill Sammon PHILADELPHIA - James Carville, the most vociferous and...
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Cajun Still Alive and Kickin'

Newspaper article by Bob Buckman; The Washington Times, July 25, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...p.m., the mixed audience of home-grown Cajuns and out-of-state tourists begins lining...arent filled for the "Rendez-Vous des Cajuns." At 6 p.m., a switch is thrown and...Louisiana in the last century that the Cajuns adopted what has become one of the mainstays...
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Jury Finds Cajun Joke a Slur: It Awards Offended Worker $120,000 at Public Expense

Newspaper article by Ronald J. Hansen; The Washington Times, August 28, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...met a temporary "coon ass," a term for Cajuns. Ms. Reid, who is black, was deeply...insulting word once used by others to apply to Cajuns. "Despite efforts to rehabilitate the...team. "Unfortunately, there are many Cajuns who insist that it has no pejorative value...
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End-of-Summer Celebration a Spicy Mix of Cajun Culture

Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, August 30, 2000

Subjects:

Louisiana

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...an adieu-to-summer party that only the Cajuns could put on. The Festivals Acadiens...Creole culture. "It was designed to help Cajuns explore and celebrate their own culture...culture in a concentrated dose. If 20,000 Cajuns are getting together for a celebration...

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Creole

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the United States in Louisiana, where it is still used to distinguish the descendants of the original French settlers from the Cajuns, who are at least partially descended from the Acadian exiles. The word is also commonly applied to things native to the New...
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Louisiana

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...descendants of the original Spanish and French colonists; the Cajuns, whose French ancestors were expelled from Acadia (Nova Scotia...welcomed thousands of Acadians (see Acadia ), known there as Cajuns, and they settled what came to be known as the Cajun country...
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Tay-Sachs Disease

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...among Jews of Eastern European descent but is also found in French Canadians whose roots are in the St. Lawrence region, certain Cajuns in Louisiana, and some Amish communities. Tay-Sachs is an autosomal recessive disorder; a person must have two defective genes...
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Acadia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the most celebrated are those who settled in "Acadiana" or "Cajun Country," around St. Martinville in S Louisiana, where the Cajuns maintain a distinctive culture. The sufferings of the 1750s expulsion from Acadia are pictured in Longfellows Evangeline...

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