Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community |
Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community
University of Washington Press
December 2021
304 pages
4 b&w illustrations
6 x 9 in.
Hardcover ISBN: 9780295749488
Paperback ISBN: 9780295749495
Edited by:
Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Assistant professor of English and International Indigenous Studies
University of Calgary
Darryl Barthé, Visiting professor of History
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Andrew J. Jolivétte, Professor of Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
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 who have been negated and 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.
Tags: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Darryl Barthé, Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, University of Washington Press