Louisiana Creole Peoplehood

"An ambitious project that breaks ground in Indigenous studies, African American/diaspora studies, and Southern studies."—Kimberly Wieser, University of Oklahoma

"An extraordinarily valuable contribution to redefining the meaning of Louisiana Creole. It avoids the erasure of Native Americans and settler colonial rigid racial and racist definitions. It is strongly rooted in urban and rural communities despite the diasporic spread of Louisiana Creoles during and after World War Two and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Thus Louisiana leads the world in peacefully integrating the cultures of her varied peoples: the wave of the future."—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, professor emerita, Rutgers University