I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans

This paper examines the generational changes in the culture and racial self-identification of Creoles of Color of New Orleans. This study argues that the key to understanding Creole culture is the role that isolationism has played in its history. While White ethnics pursued a path of assimilation, Creoles of Color pursued a path of isolationism. This path served them well during the Jim Crow era, but it suddenly became undesirable during the Black Power era. Now, however, new values of multiculturalism have resurrected Creole identity as a cultural asset.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

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History

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Dugar, Nikki

Contributors dc:contributor

• Powers, Madelon
• Mitchell, Mary N.
• Cassimere Jr., Raphael

• Creoles of Color
• racial identity
• generations
• isolationism

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/945

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1926