{"id":24483,"date":"2012-07-24T05:16:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24483"},"modified":"2017-11-06T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:04:50","slug":"wild-frenchmen-and-frenchified-indians-material-culture-and-race-in-colonial-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24483","title":{"rendered":"Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/15041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Pennsylvania Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2012<br \/>\n384 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9 | 33 color, 17 b\/w<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4437-3<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.nd.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/sophie-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophie White<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of American Studies; Associate Professor of Africana Studies; Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Notre Dame<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/15041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/img\/covers\/15041.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, <em>Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians<\/em> examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture\u2014especially dress\u2014was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of France&#8217;s seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy\u2014Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana became a province of New France in 1682. <strong>But it was here, in Upper <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana<\/a>, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of the policy&#8217;s success lay in the appearance and material possessions of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, <em>Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians<\/em> offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies\u2014for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, &#8220;Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians&#8221; examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture\u2014especially dress\u2014was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,369,8,17,3015,20],"tags":[11385,917],"class_list":["post-24483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-sophie-white","tag-university-of-pennsylvania-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483","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=24483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55073,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions\/55073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}