{"id":10014,"date":"2010-11-11T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:49:14","slug":"cast-from-their-ancestral-home-creoles-worry-about-cultures-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10014","title":{"rendered":"Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times
\n<\/a>2005-10-11<\/p>\n

Susan Saulny<\/strong>, National Correspondent<\/p>\n

NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La.<\/a>, Oct. 9 – It is peaceful here on the Cane River<\/a>, beyond the fluffy tops of high cotton and towering magnolia trees, but it is not home. For the New Orleans<\/a> Creoles<\/a> living in exodus here and elsewhere around Louisiana<\/a>, their city was far more than home – it was homeland, the capital of an ethnic nation unique in this country.<\/p>\n

“New Orleans was our womb and for most of us, it was going to be our grave,” said Timothy Bordenave, who is living in a cottage here, a five-hour drive away from the city, describing the deep sense of lifelong connection felt to New Orleans by many of the city’s Creoles<\/a>, the population of mixed-race families who trace their roots to the city’s French and Spanish colonial era…<\/p>\n

…Many Creoles trace their roots to immigrants and slaves from the former French and Spanish colonies in the Caribbean, particularly Cuba and what is now Haiti. Historians say it was New Orleans’s position as a crossroads and port town that allowed for the easy mingling of races and nationalities that in turn gave birth, in the 18th century, to a part-European, part-Afro-Caribbean society that grew to an estimated 20,000 people in Louisiana by the mid-1800’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Creole culture that developed over generations\u2014known for a distinctive cuisine, language and music\u2014contributed to New Orleans’s singular identity and helped define Louisiana to the world. Before Hurricane Katrina<\/a>, experts estimated that 10 to 20 percent of black people in New Orleans\u201430,000 to 60,000 people\u2014considered themselves Creole by way of ancestry, but even more lived lives influenced by the culture because of their proximity to it…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture’s Future New York Times 2005-10-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La., Oct. 9 – It is peaceful here on the Cane River, beyond the fluffy tops of high cotton and towering magnolia trees, but it is not home. For the New Orleans Creoles living in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,369,8,20],"tags":[201,20754,1438,4216,2327],"class_list":["post-10014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-creoles","tag-louisiana","tag-new-orleans","tag-susan-saulny","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}