{"product_id":"creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country-9780878059492","title":"Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country","description":"Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During 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 an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War, some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330192544018,"sku":"9780878059492","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_af6a2e2c-0a5e-43ce-a42c-29777d282565.jpg?v=1727794950","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country-9780878059492","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}