Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896-1949
Barthé, Darryl
Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896-1949' picks up the story of New Orleans' Creole community where Caryn Cossâe Bell ends her highly-regarded 'Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868' (LSU Press, 1997). Using Bell's work as a starting point, Darryl Barthâe moves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, suggesting that the process of 'becoming American' for them occurred due...