Cajun South Louisiana
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
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Recommended Resources:
Ancelet, Barry Jean and Jay Edwards, and Glen Pitre. Cajun Country. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Brasseaux, Carl A. Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. "Le Reveil de la Louisiane: Memory and Acadian Identity, 1920-1960," in W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Conrad, Glenn R. ed. The Cajuns: Essays on Their History and Culture. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1978.

Dorman, James H. The People Called Cajuns: An Introduction to an Ethnohistory. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1983.

Esman, Marjorie R. "Festivals, Change, and Unity: The Celebration of Ethnic Identity among Louisiana Cajuns," Anthropological Quarterly 55 (October 1982): 199-210.

Lewis, Robert. "LAcadie Retrouvee: The Re-making of Cajun Identity in Southwestern Louisiana, 1968-1994," in Richard H. King and Helen Taylor, eds., Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Culture. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Spitzer, Nicholas R. "South Louisiana: Unity and Diversity in a Folk Region," in Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Folklife Program, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, 1985.

Essay Sections:
Beginnings to 1800s | 1800s | 1900s | Recommended Resources


Published: 12 March 2004

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