Sunday, November 9, 2014

Creole Racial Identity: The creation and denotation of racial identity regarding the Louisiana creole

Creole Racial Identity: The creation and denotation of racial identity regarding the Louisiana creole

Bibliography:

Chaplin, Joyce E.

2006. Creoles in British America: From Denial to Acceptance. In Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. Stewart, Charles ed. pg 46-66. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press       

Dawdy, Shannon Lee

2000. Understanding Cultural Change Through the Vernacular: Creolization in Louisiana. Historical Archaeology 34(3): 107-123.

Jolivette, Andrew J.

2007    Including Native Identity in the Creole of Color Movement: Ethnic Renewal and Cultural Revival within a Black-Indian Population. In Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-race Native American Identity. Pg 11-27. Lanham, MD: The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

Loomba, Ania

1998    Colonialism-Postcolonialism. London: Routledge

Mosadomi, Fehintola

2000    The Origin of Louisiana Creole. In Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color. Kein, Sybil, ed. Pg 223-243. Lousiana State University Press.  

Zackodnik, Teresa C.

2004    Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatta, American Courts, and the Racial Imaginary. In                 Mulatta and the Politics of Race. pg 3-42. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Elevator Pitch:
Although the term creole applies to many different cultures, the Louisiana creole carried definitive racial implications from it's very creation.  The historical and modern identities of the creole demonstrate the transformation of this term from negative to positive connotations. This brings into question who exactly can be labeled and identify with the term creole in Louisiana, as well as what it actually means to be creole.

Theory:

I will be utilizing the postcolonial theory as a basis for my research, as the development of creole culture is directly related to colonialism.  I will take much of my approach from Ania Loomba and her book “Colonialism-Postcolonialism”, in which she explains how colonialism created the identities of many different cultures through merging other cultures together, which resulted in the emergence and formation of postcolonial cultures. This will help to demonstrate how the creole culture was created, as well as the new racial identification which compose(d) the creole was created. 

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