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DUBOIS, SYLVIE, and MEGAN MELANÇON. "Creole is, Creole ain't: Diachronic and synchronic attitudes toward Creole identity in southern Louisiana." Language in Society 29, no. 2 (April 2000): 237–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500002037.

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Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups during the French and Spanish regimes, before and after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, and through the last part of the 20th century. In spite of a strong shift toward “Black” identity by many African Americans in the state, those who are fluent Creole French speakers now seem to be the repository of Louisiana Creole identity. This article presents a diachronic study of the different meanings applied to Creole identity which resulted from dramatic social, political, and economic changes. It also delimits and defines the actual attributes of Creole identity within two representative African American communities. Because of the historical and political conditions underlying Creole identity, African Americans who still identify as Creoles insist on linguistic attributes, rather than on the criterion of race, as essential characteristics of their ethnic identity.
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Greene, Matthew, Chiquita Briley, Shakera Williams, Jamila Freightman, and Denise Holston. "African American Satisfaction With the SNAP-Ed Program: A Qualitative Exploration." Current Developments in Nutrition 6, Supplement_1 (June 2022): 836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac065.020.

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Abstract Objectives Nutrition educators and public health professionals are increasingly focused on structural racism and its contribution to racial disparities in rates of food insecurity and obesity. In the context of these barriers to healthful eating affecting marginalized populations, nutrition education programs must be carefully evaluated to determine whether they meet the needs of those populations. This study aimed to assess African Americans perceptions of and satisfaction with the SNAP-Ed program in Louisiana. Methods Three trained African American facilitators conducted five focus group discussions (FGD) with 25 African American participants in SNAP-Ed. The discussion guide for FGD was based on issues identified by SNAP-Ed leadership in Louisiana and revised by African American implementers of SNAP-Ed. FGD were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were coded independently using inductive and in-vivo coding by two members of the research team using Dedoose software. Results Participants were generally satisfied with the program and thought information was important for African Americans in the context of medical issues faced by their community. However, participants viewed lessons as race neutral and thought they should include more information about African American history and culture. Participants also noted a lack of engagement with the African American stressed the need for African American staff to better engage with the African American community. Conclusions The SNAP-Ed program in Louisiana may need to be modified to specifically address African American food history and culture. The implementation of the program should be modified to include more African American SNAP-Ed staff and better engage with the African American community. Funding Sources SNAP-Ed.
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Kao, Yu-Hsiang, Michael D. Celestin, Qingzhao Yu, Sarah Moody-Thomas, Krysten Jones-Winn, and Tung-Sung Tseng. "Racial and Income Disparities in Health-Related Quality of Life among Smokers with a Quit Attempt in Louisiana." Medicina 55, no. 2 (February 13, 2019): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina55020048.

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Background and objectives: Smoking is associated with a lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, there is little information about the association between HRQOL in relation to race, income, and smoking status. The present study aimed to assess the association between HRQOL and smoking status for those of different races and income levels. Materials and Methods: This study applied a cross-sectional design using data from the 2017 patient survey of the Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative. We obtained 1108 responses from patients at eight Louisiana public hospitals. The EuroQol (EQ-5D) US index score assessed HRQOL. Smoking status was classified into four groups: never smoked, former smoker, current smoker with a quit attempt, and current smoker without a quit attempt. Multivariate linear regression analyses were used to estimate the HRQOL for black or African Americans and whites. Results: The patients were predominantly black or African American (58.9%) with lower-income (71.2%). Bivariate analyses showed that there were differences in income levels between black or African Americans and whites (p = 0.006). Moreover, black or African Americans (median = 0.80) had a higher mean of HRQOL than whites (median = 0.76). Among lower-income black or African Americans, current smokers with a quit attempt had a lower HRQOL than current smokers (coefficient = −0.12; p < 0.01). Conclusions: Racial and income disparities were evident with regards to HRQOL, with lower-income black or African Americans who were current smokers with a quit attempt having a lower HRQOL. Intervention programs for smoking cessation should target lower-income black or African American smokers who have a prior quit attempt and provide effective cessation services to help them quit smoking and improve their HRQOL.
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Frazier, Denise. "The Nickel: A History of African-Descended People in Houston’s Fifth Ward." Genealogy 4, no. 1 (March 24, 2020): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4010033.

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This paper will chronicle the unique stories that have come to exemplify the larger experience of Fifth Ward as a historically African American district in a rapidly changing city, Houston. Fifth Ward is a district submerged in the Southern memory of a sprawling port city. Its 19th century inception comprised of residents from Eastern Europe, Russia, and other religious groups who were fleeing persecution. Another way to describe Fifth Ward is much closer to the Fifth Ward that I knew as a child—an African American Fifth Ward and, more personally, my grandparents’ neighborhood. The growing prosperity of an early 20th century oil-booming Houston had soon turned the neighborhood into an economic haven, attracting African Americans from rural Louisiana and east Texas. Within the past two decades, Latino communities have populated the area, transforming the previously majority African American ward. Through a qualitative familial research review of historic documents, this paper contains a cultural and economic analysis that will illustrate the unique legacies and challenges of its past and present residents. I will center my personal genealogical roots to connect with larger patterns of change over time for African Americans in this distinct cultural ward.
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Booker, Staja, Keela Herr, and Toni Tripp-Reimer. "Patterns and Perceptions of Self-Management for Osteoarthritis Pain in African American Older Adults." Pain Medicine 20, no. 8 (December 12, 2018): 1489–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pm/pny260.

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AbstractObjectiveTo explore and describe older African Americans’ patterns and perceptions of managing chronic osteoarthritis pain.MethodsA convergent parallel mixed-methods design incorporating cross-sectional surveys and individual, semistructured interviews.SettingOne hundred ten African Americans (≥50 years of age) with clinical osteoarthritis (OA) or provider-diagnosed OA from communities in northern Louisiana were enrolled.ResultsAlthough frequency varied depending on the severity of pain, older African Americans actively used an average of seven to eight self-management strategies over the course of a month to control pain. The average number of self-management strategies between high and low education and literacy groups was not statistically different, but higher-educated adults used approximately one additional strategy than those with high school or less. To achieve pain relief, African Americans relied on 10 self-management strategies that were inexpensive, easy to use and access, and generally perceived as helpful: over-the-counter (OTC) topicals, thermal modalities, land-based exercise, spiritual activities, OTC and prescribed analgesics, orthotic and assistive devices, joint injections, rest, and massage and vitamins.ConclusionsThis is one of the first studies to quantitatively and qualitatively investigate the self-management of chronic OA pain in an older African American population that happened to be a predominantly higher-educated and health-literate sample. Findings indicate that Southern-dwelling African Americans are highly engaged in a range of different self-management strategies, many of which are self-initiated. Although still an important component of chronic pain self-management, spirituality was used by less than half of African Americans, but use of oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids was relatively high.
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Greene-Hayes, Ahmad. "“A Very Queer Case”." Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 26, no. 4 (May 1, 2023): 58–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.26.4.58.

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In this article, I present the case of Clementine Barnabet, an Afro-Creole teenager who was arrested in 1911 and convicted in 1912 for allegedly committing “Voodoo murders” in southwest Louisiana and Texas. The press, the police, and other Louisiana officials, along with an author employed by the Louisiana Writers’ Project in the 1930s, used racialized and sexualized hyperbole to deem Barnabet a participant in a “Voodoo cult,” purportedly called the Church of the Sacrifice. Moreover, in their quest for information about Barnabet and her beliefs, white Americans also imagined a monolithic Black religion—specifically, a sensationalized Voodoo religion—practiced by all people of African descent in the region regardless of their self-identification as Christians or practitioners of conjure, or both. Thus, I propose reviewing Barnabet’s case not as an attempt to determine her guilt or innocence, but rather as a means of deconstructing white American eroticized racial fantasy in the production of a normative American Christian religion and the concurrent misrepresentation of Black religions.
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Booker, Staja Q., Toni Tripp-Reimer, and Keela A. Herr. "“Bearing the Pain”: The Experience of Aging African Americans With Osteoarthritis Pain." Global Qualitative Nursing Research 7 (January 2020): 233339362092579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333393620925793.

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Studies document that osteoarthritis-related joint pain is more severe in African American older adults, but research on the personal experience of osteoarthritis pain self-management in this population is limited. Using a qualitative descriptive design, our objective was to extend our understanding of the experience of life with osteoarthritis pain. Eighteen African Americans (50 years and older) were recruited from Louisiana to participate in a single semi-structured, in-depth interview. A conventional content analysis revealed that “Bearing the pain” characterized how older African Americans dealt with osteoarthritis. Bearing the pain comprised three actions: adjusting to pain, sharing pain with others, and trusting God as healer. We discovered that a metapersonal experience subsumes the complex biopsychosocial-cultural patterns and the intricate interaction of self, others, and God in living with and managing osteoarthritis pain. Study findings have implications for application of more inclusive self-management frameworks and interventions.
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Holden, Stephanie. "Community Assessment of Colorectal Cancer Screening Compliance in Northwest Louisiana." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 40, no. 4 (November 9, 2019): 273–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272684x19885515.

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Background In the United States, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates have steadily increased. The state of Louisiana has persistent lower screening rates compared to the United States and other states, and with African Americans experiencing the highest CRC incidence rates. Aggregate national and state data can be problematic in isolating key health issues and data in rural areas. Study Purpose: At the Louisiana parish-level, which is comparable to county municipalities in other U.S. states, the research study examined endoscopy CRC screening among African American Medicare beneficiaries. Method Using cluster sampling, survey-based data from two neighboring parishes in northwest Louisiana were collected. The survey instrument was adapted from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. Results The key study variables were CRC screening compliance, residence location, self-reported CRC knowledge, and physician recommendation. The findings showed significant differences in CRC screening compliance between the two parishes. Participants with CRC knowledge score of at least 3 out of 5 were more likely to be compliant with CRC screening. The findings demonstrated the importance of isolating geo-specific data, especially in rural areas, to plan effective health education or intervention strategies.
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Tallaksen, Amund R. "Junkies and Jim Crow: The Boggs Act of 1951 and the Racial Transformation of New Orleans’ Heroin Market." Journal of Urban History 45, no. 2 (September 20, 2017): 230–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144217731339.

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This article details the origin and passage of the Boggs Act of 1951, as well as a similar drug law passed at the state level in Louisiana. Both laws featured strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, which led to a demographic transformation of New Orleans’ heroin markets in the early 1950s: As New Orleans’ Italian-American Mafiosi retreated from the lower echelons of the heroin economy, entrepreneurial African Americans took their place. In turn, many black leaders came to support both stricter drug laws and increased police focus on crime in black neighborhoods. This demand was rooted in African Americans’ frustration with the New Orleans Police Department and its Jim Crow practice of ignoring intra-racial black crime. It also became important for black leaders to distance themselves from the “criminal element”—an otherwise potent political symbol for white segregationists.
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Johnson, Eboneé T., Rana A. Yaghmaian, Andrew Best, Fong Chan, and Reginald Burrell. "Evaluating the Measurement Structure of the Abbreviated HIV Stigma Scale in a Sample of African Americans Living With HIV/AIDS." Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education 30, no. 1 (2016): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/2168-6653.30.1.65.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate the 10-item version of the HIV Stigma Scale (HSS-10) in a sample of African Americans with HIV/AIDS.Method: One hundred and ten African Americans living with HIV/AIDS were recruited from 3 case management agencies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Measurement structure of the HSS-10 was evaluated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Results: Factor analysis results support a 2-factor factorial structure for the HSS-10 (social stigma and self-stigma). The HSS-10 demonstrates good reliability and factorial validity, and it correlates moderately with related constructs in the expected directions.Conclusion: HSS-10 is a brief, reliable, and valid instrument for assessing HIV stigma and can be used as a clinical rehabilitation and research tool to assess the contribution of stigma as a major cause of health disparities and outcomes in African Americans living with HIV/AIDS.
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Reynaud, Ralph Clifton. "An historical study of the Negro schools of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, 1888-1938." Lake Charles, La. : McNeese State University, Frazar Memorial Library, Dept. of Archives and Special Collections, 2008. http://library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/FTBooks/reynaud.htm.

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Maguire, Robert E. (Robert Earl) 1948. "Hustling to survive : social and economic change in a south Louisiana Black Creole community." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28387.

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This thesis examines social and economic change among Black Creoles in the sugarcane plantation society of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. It begins with slavery and emphasizes the last 40 years. The study area is viewed as a creole society set in the United States. Change and adaptation is analysed from the perspective of those lacking access to, and control over, resources ensuring socio-economic advancement. Factors of race and ethnicity are crucial to the analysis.
Changes in the agricultural economy have cast blacks off the land. In local settlements, they form a surplus labor pool. In today's industrial, neoplantation economy, Civil Rights legislation and alliances beyond the study area have ensured black participation, particularly at a textile mill, resulting in fragile prosperity. Their dual Afro-Creole identity, viewed through language, music, and food, faces a questionable future as alliances external to the creole society are strengthened.
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Waits, Sarah A. ""Listen to the Wild Discord": Jazz in the Chicago Defender and the Louisiana Weekly, 1925-1929." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1676.

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This essay will use the views of two African American newspaper columnists, E. Belfield Spriggins of the Louisiana Weekly and Dave Peyton of the Chicago Defender, to argue that though New Orleans and Chicago both occupied a primary place in the history of jazz, in many ways jazz was initially met with ambivalence and suspicion. The struggle between the desire to highlight black achievement in music and the effort to adhere to tenets of middle class respectability play out in their columns. Despite historiographical writings to the contrary, these issues of the influence of jazz music on society were not limited to the white community. Tracing these columnists through the years of 1925-1929, a critical point in the popularity of jazz, reveals how considerations of black innovation and economic autonomy helped alter their opinions from criticism to ownership.
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Mitchell, Brian. "Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study in Race & Politics in Reconstruction Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1351.

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The study of African American Reconstruction leadership has presented a variety of unique challenges for modern historians who struggle to piece together the lives of men, who prior to the Civil War, had little political identity. The scant amounts of primary source data in regard to these leaders’ lives before the war, the destruction of many documents in regard to their leadership following the Reconstruction Era, and the treatment of these figures by historians prior to the Revisionist movement have left this body of extremely important political figures largely unexplored. This dissertation will examine the life of one of Louisiana’s foremost leaders, Lt. Governor Oscar James Dunn, the United States’ first African American executive officeholder. Using previously overlooked papers, Masonic records, Senate journals, newspaper articles and government documents, the dissertation explores Dunn’s role in Louisiana politics and chronicles the factionalization of the Republican Party in Reconstruction New Orleans. Born a slave and released from bondage at an early age, Oscar J. Dunn was able to transcend the stigma which was often attached to those who had been held in slavery. A native of New Orleans, born to Anglo-African parents, he was also able to transcend the language barrier that often excluded Anglo-Africans from social acceptability in Afro-Creole society. Although illiterate, Dunn’s parents made critical strides in securing his social mobility by providing him with both a formal education and a trade apprenticeship. Those skills propelled Dunn forward within his Anglo-African community wherein he became a key figure in the community’s two most important institutions, the York Rite Masonic Lodge and the African Methodist Episcopal church. This dissertation argues that Dunn’s political ascent was linked to the political enfranchisement of antebellum Anglo-Africans in Louisiana, Dunn’s involvement in Anglo-African institutions (particularly the York Rite Masonic Lodge and the African Methodist Episcopal church) and Dunn’s ability to find middle ground in the racially charged arguments that engulfed Reconstruction New Orleans’s political arena. Keywords: Oscar Dunn, Reconstruction, New Orleans, Republican, Louisiana, African American, Politics
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DeLucca, Claire. "Both Sides of the Barbed Wire: Lives of German Prisoners of War and African Americans in Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, 1944-1946." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2454.

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Located outside of Alexandria, Louisiana, Camp Claiborne was temporarily home to more than 500,000 U.S. servicemen and women during its short existence. Thousands of German prisoners of war also were held for more than two years in a section of the camp. Racial problems stemming from the policies of Jim Crow South and the blatant inequality eventually led to an African American mutiny within the camp. The events from 1944 to 1946 at Camp Claiborne provide insight into the mindsets of white Southerners and the generation of African Americans who would influence the major civil rights victories in the following decades.
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Carey, Kim M. "Straddling the Color Line: Social and Political Power of African American Elites in Charleston, New Orleans, and Cleveland, 1880-1920." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366839959.

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Voltz, Noel Mellick. "“`It’s no disgrace to a colored girl to placer’: Sexual Commodification and Negotiation among Louisiana’s “Quadroons,” 1805-1860”." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417682791.

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Hobratsch, Ben Melvin. "Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5369/.

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This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans's free people of color. The emphasis of this work is that French culture, mixed Gallic and African ancestry, and freedom from slavery served as the three keys to the identity of this class of people. Taken together, these three factors separated the free people of color from the other major groups residing in New Orleans - Anglo-Americans, white Creoles and black slaves. The introduction provides an overview of the topic and states the need for this study. Chapter 1 provides a look at New Orleans from the perspective of the free people of color. Chapter 2 investigates the slaveownership of these people. Chapter 3 examines the published literature of the free people of color. The conclusion summarizes the significance found in the preceding three chapters and puts their findings into a broader interpretive framework.
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Cook, Christopher Joseph. "Agency, Consolidation, and Consequence: Evaluating Social and Political Change in New Orleans, 1868-1900." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/535.

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In the last twenty years, recent scholarship has opened up fresh inquiry into several aspects of New Orleans society during the late nineteenth century. Much work has been done to reassess the political and cultural involvement, as well as perspective of, the black Creoles of the city; the successful reordering of society under the direction of the Anglo-Protestant elite; and the evolution of New Orleans's social conditions and cultural institutions during the period initiating Jim Crow segregation. Further exploration, however, is necessary to make connections between each of these avenues of study. This thesis relies on a variety of secondary sources, primary legal documents, and contemporary newspaper articles and publications, to provide connections between the above topics, giving each greater context and allowing for the exploration of several themes. These include the direction of black Creole public ambition after the end of that community's last civil rights crusade, the effects of Democratic Party strategy and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement on younger generations of white residents, and the effects of changing social expectations and increasing segregation on the city's diverse ethnic immigrant community. In doing so, this thesis will contribute to enhancing the current understanding of New Orleans's complex and changing social order, as well as provide future researchers with a broad based work which will effectively introduce the exploration of a variety of key topics and serve as a bridge to connect them with specific lines of inquiry while highlighting the above themes in order to make new connections between various facets of the city's troubled racial history.
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McCullugh, Erin Elizabeth. ""Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3269.

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Visitors to Antebellum New Orleans rarely failed to comment on the highly visible population of free persons of color, particularly the women. Light, but not white, the women who collectively became known as Quadroons enjoyed a degree of affluence and liberty largely unknown outside of Southeastern Louisiana. The Quadroons of New Orleans, however, suffered from neglect and misrepresentation in nineteenth and twentieth-century accounts. Historians of slavery and southern black women, for example, have written at length on the sexual experiences of black women and white men. Most of the research, however, centers on the institutionalized rape, victimization, and exploitation of black women at the hands of white males. Even late into the twentieth century, scholars largely failed to distinguish the experiences of free women of color from those of enslaved women with little nuance in regard to economic, educational, and cultural differences. All women of color -- whether free or enslaved -- continued to be viewed through the lens of slavery. Studies that examine free women of color were rare and those focusing exclusively on them alone were virtually nonexistent. As a result, the actual experiences of free women of color in the Gulf States passed unnoticed for generations. In the event that the Quadroons of New Orleans were mentioned at all, it was normally within the context of the mythologized balls or in scandalous tales where they played the role of mistress to white men, subsequently resulting in a one dimensional character that lived expressly for the enjoyment of white males. Due to the relative silence of their own voices, approaching the topic of New Orleans’ Quadroons at length is difficult at best. But by placing these women within a wider pan-Atlantic framework and using extant legal records, the various African, Caribbean, French, and Spanish cultural threads emerge that contributed to the colorful cultural tapestry of Antebellum New Orleans. These influences enabled such practices as placage and by extension, the development of an intellectual, wealthy, vibrant Creole community of color headed by women.
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Books on the topic "African americans, louisiana"

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Broussard, Sherry T. African Americans in Lafayette and Southwest Lousiana. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Pub., 2012.

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Erna, Brodber, and Erna Brodber. Louisiana: A novel. [Jackson]: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

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Perkins, Archie Ebenezer. Who's who in colored Louisiana. Alexandria, Va.]: Chadwyck-Healey, 1987.

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Brodber, Erna. Louisiana: A novel. London: New Beacon Books, 1994.

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Woods, Isabelle M. African American burials and obituaries of northeast Louisiana. Bossier City, Louisiana: Isabelle M. Woods, 2012.

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Sandel, Mary Eleanor. Black names in Louisiana. [Louisiana?]: M.E. Williams, 1992.

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1977-, Winburn Jonathan, ed. The Louisiana legislative Black caucus: Race and representation in the Pelican State. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.

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Clark, Peter Wellington. Footprints: A yearbook of Black achievement in Louisiana. New Orleans, La: Laborde Print. Co., 1988.

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Lewis, Ora M. Seeds in the wind: A historical novel, Louisiana (1565-1865). Washington, D.C: Maranatha Press, 2000.

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Alexander, Marvolyn D. African contributions to landscape architecture: The cultural landscape of African-Americans in southern Louisiana. [Louisiana]: M.D. Alexander, 1990.

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Drechsel, Emanuel J. "Introduction." In Mobilian Jargon, 3–9. Oxford University PressOxford, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198240334.003.0001.

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Abstract Louisiana brings to mind pictures of a unique place-bayous, or marshy and usually sluggish tributaries to a river or lake, associated with images of a slower, more relaxed lifestyle. This part of North America also demonstrates passion in lagniappe, Mardi Gras, spicy Creole cuisine, jazz, and New Orleans with its long and unique history. All these impressions evoke memories of a good time, epitomized by Laissez les bans temps rouler! As a stronghold of French language in North America, Louisiana has maintained a distinct French colonial heritage. A closer examination of its history further shows significant Spanish and African influences. Place names such as Lac des allemands or Bayou des allemands remind one even of German settlers, who accompanied the first French colonizers to the Mississippi delta area in the early eighteenth century. Yet conspicuously absent from Louisiana’s history, as presented conventionally, has been her Native American population. The Guide to the History of Louisiana (Cummins and Jeansonne 1982) covers various periods and specific communities such as African Americans, urban New Orleans, and women, without including any systematic discussion of American Indians. In this regard, the Guide’s editors have not been unusual, for historians of the South have regularly overlooked Native Americans in the area. A common but unsupported justification for this neglect draws on arguments as to the historical insignificance of native peoples. based on the erroneous supposition that they either have perished (such as the frequently cited Natchez) or else have been removed to “the Indian Territory’’ in the Plains (like the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma). Other scholars (e.g. Perdue 1988) have interpreted Native Americans of the South primarily in terms of its racist plantation history, and apparently do not recognize indigenous traditions still alive today.
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Payne, Amaniyea. "Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago." In Hot Feet and Social Change, 114–22. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042959.003.0008.

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Long famed as a mecca of African-American culture, New Orleans occupies a special place in studies of African diasporic music and dance. By outlining the historical and social factors that shaped unique expressions of African American cultural identity, Ausetta Amenkum provides an experiential account of the formation of the Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective, not only as a performance troupe, but also as a community institution. Utilizing poetry and an engaging tone, Amenkum situates the emergence of African dance companies founded by African Americans in the local cultural trajectory of New Orleans mid-20th century. She, then, chronicles her work and the use of African dance as a holistic approach, as she addresses a specific example: women’s incarceration issues in Louisiana.
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Blair, William A. "The Killing Fields of 1868." In The Record of Murders and Outrages, 80–105. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663456.003.0005.

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In 1868, southern whites targeted violence against Black men and their white allies as part of election intimidation. Louisiana and Georgia—two states with registered Republican majorities—instead went Democrat in the presidential election. Reports in the Records Relating to Murders and Outrages exposed activity by the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the racial atrocities conducted in these two states. The worst violence to occur in terms of numbers during early Reconstruction came in Bossier and Caddo parishes, Louisiana. Maybe as many as 200 African Americans were gunned down in a couple of weeks, some of them the victims of mass executions. Although these two parishes that had 4,530 registered Republicans, only two voted in the election. The Records Relating to Murders and Outrages exposed these crimes in rural areas that became the subject of congressional investigations and that otherwise might have been lost to history.
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Brown, Jeannette. "Chemical Educators." In African American Women Chemists. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199742882.003.0008.

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Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro was one of the first African American women scientists and researchers in the field of food chemistry and nutrition. Having grown up in the segregated American South, Dr. Protho became particularly interested in promoting healthy nutrition and diets for African Americans. Johnnie Hines Watts was born on February 28, 1922, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the segregated South. Her parents emphasized the importance of an education and she graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. She enrolled in the historically black Spelman College in Atlanta as a commuter student and received a BS degree with honors in Home Economics from Spelman in 1941. Following her graduation, she obtained a position as a teacher of foods and nutrition—the usual career path for African American women who earned bachelor’s degrees in science during the Jim Crow era—at Atlanta’s all-black Booker T. Washington High School. Watts taught at Booker T. Washington High School from 1941 to 1945, then moved to New York City to attend Columbia University, from which she received her MS degree in 1946. Armed with her master’s degree, Watts became an instructor of chemistry at a historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She worked there during the 1946–1947 academic year before deciding to pursue a PhD. Watts enrolled in the University of Chicago after researching the doctoral offerings of several universities. She was the recipient of a number of scholarships and awards at the University of Chicago. Among the awards were the Laverne Noyes Scholarship (1948–1950), the Evaporated Milk Association Award (1950–1951), the Borden Award from the American Home Economics Association (1950– 1951), and a research assistantship (1951–1952). Watts married Charles E. Prothro in 1949. It is said that they met in Connecticut, but this is not clearly documented. Watts Prothro received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1952. Her dissertation title is “The Relation of the Rates of Inactivation of Peroxidase, Catecholase, and Ascorbase to the Oxidation of Ascorbic Acid in Vegetables.”
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Berry, Jason. "St. Maló in the Memory Rings." In City of a Million Dreams, 27–45. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469647142.003.0002.

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New Orleans at year ten was a black majority town with slave labor. The 1724 Code Noir aligned Louisiana slave law to that of the French Caribbean colonies. Slave owners pragmatically let Africans carry weapons, hire out for jobs, farm, hunt, fish, and sell the products of their labor. Africans traded goods at a growing African marketplace, and gathered to resurrect the burial choreographies and ceremonial dances of their mother culture. The Bamana belief in the transmigration of souls was a powerful sense of cultural continuity. In 1743, when Bienville departed, the town had survived financial convulsions, floods, food shortages, a slave revolt, Indian tensions, maroons—fugitive slaves—and smugglers in a black market. After Spain assumed control of New Orleans in 1765, Code Noir transitioned to Spanish slave law, giving slaves more rights. By 1781, the maroon village Ville Gaillard was a significant force led by the fugitive Creole Juan Maló. After many conflicts with the authorities, Maló was captured and executed on June 12, 1784. St. Maló’s resistance burrowed into the memory of African Americans, his legacy influenced by funeral dances and voodoo, his memory preserved through oral culture, and his impact still felt to this day.
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Smethurst, James. "Becoming Black, Becoming Southern." In Behold the Land, 57–86. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469663043.003.0003.

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Chapter Two takes up the movement of cultural and educational institutions in the Gulf Coast South, with special focus on Texas and Louisiana, from an identification as interracial Civil Rights organizations to more self-consciously Black institutions as the national Black Power and Black Arts movements took shape. At the same time, groups of, for the most part, young African Americans began to set up new institutions. It also considers how Black artists, intellectuals, and activists, who had gained entrée to various institutions that had previously been entirely, or almost entirely, reserved for white people found in these institutions lingering restrictions and not so transparent ceilings that moved them in a more nationalist direction. A key event in this regard is the separation of the writers and theater workshops of the Free Southern Theater from the theater and the formation of BLKARTSOUTH in New Orleans. Both Nkombo, the journal of BLKARTSOUTH, and the tours of the BLKARTSOUTH performance group helped inspire African American artists to form like groups from Texas to Florida, laying the basis of the Southern Black Cultural Alliance (SBCA).
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Huber, Hannah L. "“A Monst’us Pow’ful Sleeper”." In Sleep Fictions, 59–90. University of Illinois Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045400.003.0003.

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In 1851, Louisiana doctor Samuel Cartwright declared that lethargy was an innate trait among African Americans that could only be managed through the prescription of hard labor. A half century later, Charles Chesnutt penned his “Uncle Julius” tales (1887–1900), which played on the plantation tradition of local color fiction and drew from slave narratives to challenge scientific racism in the US South and beyond. The stories, told by a formerly enslaved and newly indentured Black inhabitant of a North Carolina plantation, illustrate the South’s incessant demands on Black people’s time. Chesnutt’s stories portray Black characters who resist sleep deprivation and exhaustion by ironically feigning drowsy demeanors in an effort to subvert master clock time on southern plantations in the antebellum era and the New South.
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Cullen, Jim. "King Of America: The Dream of Equality." In The American Dream, 103–32. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195158212.003.0005.

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Abstract Homer plessy was not a slave. Born in New Orleans on March 17, 1862—six months to the day before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation—the was the son of Creole parents. Although Plessy and his entire family were light-skinned and “passed” as white, his great-grandmother was of African descent. This meant, according to Louisiana law, that he was legally black. Unlike many African Americans—or “negroes,” as they were called in polite circles at the time—Plessy, who grew up to become a shoemaker, had been a free man his entire life. Nobody owned him; nobody could buy or sell him. He could say what he pleased, go where he wanted. He enjoyed a series of constitutionally protected rights as a United States citizen. Of course, as a negro, there were certain, shall we say, considerations. Nobody owned him, but if he was ever unfortunate enough to go to jail (something statistically more likely for him than for a white man), he might end up on a chain gang performing forced labor. He could say what he pleased, but as surely he understood, some things (particularly those critical of the state of race relations) could only be said at his own risk. He could go where he wanted, assuming he had the means (and obeyed the prevailing rules, like sticking among his own kind).
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Lowe, John Wharton, and Jay Watson. "From Yoknapatawpha County to St. Raphael Parish: Faulknerian Influence on the Works of Ernest J. Gaines." In Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496806345.003.0011.

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This essay examines affinities between Faulkner and one of the South’s most important contemporary authors, Ernest J. Gaines. It begins by noting the powerful geographical and intertextual imagination at work in the two writers: each created a bounded fictional domain that served as the principal setting for numerous works (Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County and Gaines’s Louisiana parish of St. Raphael), each used recurring characters across multiple fictions and each writer’s assembled books speak in a kind of dialogue with each other that integrates and amplifies the impact of the overall body of work. By his own admission, Gaines learned much from Faulkner, but just as important are the things to avoid that he found in Faulkner. Where Faulkner too often portrays African Americans in narrow terms of victimization or sheer endurance, Gaines went beyond those limitations to present black figures who achieve a full human standing acknowledged by the larger community.
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Baptiste, Bala J. "Some Black Broadcasters Spoke Concerning the Civil Rights Movement." In Race and Radio, 93–104. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496822062.003.0006.

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The verdict is mixed concerning the extent black broadcasters in the city provided interpretation of issues related to the modern Civil Rights Movement between 1954–1968. The black press, owned by African Americans and relatively independent, covered civil rights news locally and nationally. For example Louisiana Weekly in New Orleans provided quotes from speeches, such as those delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. The paper also published commentary concerning the movement. Nevertheless, broadcaster Larry McKinley produced programming targeting blacks. He was so moved by a King speech in 1957 that he attempted to join the rights group CORE, but could not "turn the other cheek." CORE representatives asked him to go on air and broadcast times and locations of rallies and other public meetings. McKinley also interview foots soldiers such as CORE member Jerome Smith who was terribly brutalized by white terrorists in Birmingham during the Freedom Rides in 1961.
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Woloszynska-Read, Anna, Lili Tian, James L. Mohler, Elizabeth T. Fontham, Jeannette T. Bensen, Candace S. Johnson, and Donald L. Trump. "Abstract B81: Vitamin D and prostate cancer aggressiveness among African and European Americans in the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP) case study cohort." In Abstracts: AACR International Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities‐‐ Sep 18-Sep 21, 2011; Washington, DC. American Association for Cancer Research, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.disp-11-b81.

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Woloszynska-Read, Anna, Lenore Arab, John Adams, Jeannette T. Bensen, Elizabeth TH Fontham, James L. Mohler, Joseph Su, et al. "Abstract LB-12: Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels are associated with aggressive prostate cancer among African Americans in the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP)." In Proceedings: AACR 104th Annual Meeting 2013; Apr 6-10, 2013; Washington, DC. American Association for Cancer Research, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2013-lb-12.

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Steck, Susan E., Anna Woloszynska-Read, Lenore Arab, Daria McMahon, Jeannette Bensen, John S. Adams, Elizabeth T. H. Fontham, et al. "Abstract B07: Ratio of plasma 1,25(OH)2D to 25(OH)D is inversely associated with aggressive prostate cancer in African Americans in the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP)." In Abstracts: Sixth AACR Conference: The Science of Cancer Health Disparities; December 6–9, 2013; Atlanta, GA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp13-b07.

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A Leon de la Rocha, Jose, Emilie Bourgeois, and Myriam Guevara. "156 Safety and efficacy of belimumab for treating systemic lupus erythematosus in the african american population at louisiana state university health sciences center in new orleans." In 13th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (LUPUS 2019), San Francisco, California, USA, April 5–8, 2019, Abstract Presentations. Lupus Foundation of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2019-lsm.156.

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Hsu, Ping-Ching, Shelbie Stahr, Christopher Brazeal, Elizabeth H. Fontham, and L. Joseph Su. "Abstract PO-201: Smoking as a risk factor for the aggressive prostate cancer for African-American men from the North Carolina–Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP)." In Abstracts: AACR Virtual Conference: Thirteenth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; October 2-4, 2020. American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp20-po-201.

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Loch, M., X. Li, J. Estrada, T. Reske, V. Chen, and X.-C. Wu. "Abstract P5-12-07: Triple-negative breast cancer in African American women - How women in New Orleans compare to the rest of Louisiana and the Nation." In Abstracts: Thirty-Sixth Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium - Dec 10-14, 2013; San Antonio, TX. American Association for Cancer Research, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.sabcs13-p5-12-07.

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Bonner Cozad, Aisha. Vital Voices: Issues that Impact Louisiana's African American/Black Adults Age 45 and Older, August 2022, Annotated Questionnaire. Washington, DC: AARP Research, February 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.26419/res.00524.060.

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