{"id":43093,"date":"2016-01-08T02:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43093"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:54:17","slug":"the-story-of-french-new-orleans-history-of-a-creole-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43093","title":{"rendered":"The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University Press of Mississippi<\/a>
\nJanuary 2016
\n208 pages (approx.)
\n1 map, bibliography, index
\n6 x 9 inches
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781496804860<\/p>\n

Dianne Guenin-Lelle<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of French
\nAlbion College, Albion, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Why New Orleans is considered America’s distinctly French city<\/em><\/p>\n

What is it about the city of New Orleans<\/a> History, location, and culture, continue to link it to France<\/a> while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States<\/a>. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French socio-cultural dynamic left on the Crescent City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The migration of Acadians<\/a> to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced its Francophone<\/a> identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the antebellum<\/a> south, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The book analyzes these connections and the shared process of creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin<\/a>. It suggests “French” New Orleans might be understood as a trope<\/a> for unscripted “original” Creole<\/a> social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests that an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially-bound and contested social order within the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City University Press of Mississippi January 2016 208 pages (approx.) 1 map, bibliography, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9781496804860 Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Professor of French Albion College, Albion, Michigan Why New Orleans is considered America’s distinctly French city What is it about the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,369,8,17,20],"tags":[21301,96,1438,1420],"class_list":["post-43093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-dianne-guenin-lelle","tag-france","tag-new-orleans","tag-university-press-of-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43093","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=43093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43094,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43093\/revisions\/43094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}