{"id":39348,"date":"2015-01-09T18:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T18:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39348"},"modified":"2015-01-09T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T18:12:44","slug":"the-new-creole-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39348","title":{"rendered":"The New Creole Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejambalayamagazine.com\/2015\/01\/08\/the-new-creole-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The New Creole Movement<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejambalayamagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jambalaya Magazine &amp; Clothing<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AHumanLearning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julia Dumas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a movement brewing. It is a movement with a mission to reclaim Louisiana Creole culture.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisianians<\/a> have been scarred by a painful past full of racism and colorism. Darker people were banned from claiming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana_Creole_people\" target=\"_blank\">Creole<\/a> heritage, if unable to pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paper_bag_party\" target=\"_blank\">brown paper bag test<\/a>. Lighter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creoles_of_color\" target=\"_blank\">Creoles of Color<\/a> who closely identified with their African roots consciously chose not to claim Creole heritage, as a means not to seem separate. This left an impression that the only true Creoles were of primarily European descent. Our internal struggle with race and color has done a great injustice to us as a people.<\/p>\n<p>As many Louisiana Creoles migrate across the country and the world, we have discovered how truly unique our culture is. I believe this is why there is a cultural revival brewing. We proudly live our culture, but refuse to name it. Before we can all proudly reclaim our Creole heritage, we must first answer some basic questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thejambalayamagazine.com\/2015\/01\/08\/the-new-creole-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Creole Movement Jambalaya Magazine &amp; Clothing 2015-01-08 Julia Dumas There is a movement brewing. It is a movement with a mission to reclaim Louisiana Creole culture. Many Louisianians have been scarred by a painful past full of racism and colorism. Darker people were banned from claiming Creole heritage, if unable to pass the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,459,369,8,20],"tags":[18412,18413],"class_list":["post-39348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jambalaya-magazine-clothing","tag-julia-dumas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39348","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=39348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}