{"product_id":"creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country-paperback","title":"Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarl a. Brasseaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eClaude F. Oubre\u003c\/b\u003e (With), \u003cb\u003eKeith P. Fontenot\u003c\/b\u003e (With)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of south-western Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society--white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become and integral part of the community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first serious historical examination of a distinctive multiracial society of Louisiana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl A. Brasseaux\u003c\/b\u003e, former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and a Louisiana Writer of the Year, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is author or coauthor of more than forty books including \u003ci\u003eAsian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAcadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCreoles of Color in the Bayou Country\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi. \u003cb\u003eClaude F. Oubre\u003c\/b\u003e (1937-2011) was a professor of history and political science at Louisiana State University at Eunice\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith P. Fontenot\u003c\/b\u003e is an archivist at St. Landry Parish Clerk of Courts, 27th Judicial District, Opelousas, Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9.04 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864208834848,"sku":"9780878059492","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/wtYyNPF1869780878059492.webp?v=1781643082","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}